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Message-ID: <20060703023000.52836.qmail@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Can't drop table
To: Hima Surapaneni <hbsur1@student.monash.edu>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
In-Reply-To: <203.39.118.63.1151878450@my.monash.edu.au>
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> I have created a table called experimenters with the following query:
> CREATE TABLE experimenters (
>       experimenter_id  INTEGER CONSTRAINT firstkey PRIMARY KEY,
>       first_name       CHAR(20),
>       last_name        CHAR(25),
>       address          CHAR(30),
>       phone_num        CHAR(15)
> );
> The query was successful. But when I try to drop or alter the table, it just hangs without
> echoing any error message. I have to cancel the query to get out.
> I ran the following query to drop the table
> DROP TABLE experimenters;
> It also hangs when I try to alter the table.
> Just don't understand the problem here.
> Any help will be highly appreciated.

You might want to post this on the PG_General Mailing list of you do not get many responses.

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.