I'll recheck everything tonight and recompile with the latest
source on a fresh Red Hat machine.

D.

-----Original Message-----
From: jwieck@debis.com [mailto:jwieck@debis.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 1:33 PM
To: DGowin@avantec.net
Cc: pgsql-core@postgreSQL.org; pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] FW: [CORE] create database bug


>
> I've got the bug working on Sparc Linux also. Don't understand why
> you can't recreate it.
>
> D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 11:21 AM
> To: DGowin@avantec.net
> Cc: pgsql-core@postgreSQL.org; kraken@blueriver.net
> Subject: Re: [CORE] create database bug
>
>
> > All,
> >  If you create a database with "_" in the name some strange
> > things
> > occur. For example:
> >
> > 1)    create database cfg_smb;
> >       ok
> > 2)    drop database cfg_smb;
> >       ok
> > 3)    create database cfg_smb;
> >       error: database already exists.
> > 4)    drop database cfg_smb;
> >       error: database does not exist.
> >  (Note: the database directory still exists, but no files are
> > within it.)
> >
> > But on the other hand:
> >
> > 1)    create database cfgsmb;
> >       ok
> > 2)    drop database cfgsmb;
> >       ok
> > 3)    create database cfgsmb;
> >       ok
> > 4)    drop database cfgsmb;
> >       ok
> >
> >  Everything is fine.
> >
> > I don't know where the code is that handles the dropping of
databases,
> > but I would
> > think this would be easy to fix.
> >
> > Versions this was tried on:
> > PostgreSQL v6.4, PostgreSQL v6.4.1, PostgreSQL v6.4.2
> > Red Hat Linux v5.2, Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
>
> Can't recreate the problem here on bsdi and current development
sources.

    I can't too here on i486-pc-linux-gnu and current development
    tree.


Jan

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Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:53:38 -0500
Dan Gowin <DGowin@avantec.net>
RE: [HACKERS] FW: [CORE] create database bug
Dan Gowin <DGowin@avantec.net> writes:
>>>> If you create a database with "_" in the name some strange
>>>> things occur.

I don't see this bug either.

Are you perhaps running with non-English locale settings?
That might make a difference...

			regards, tom lane

Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:44:30 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] FW: [CORE] create database bug 