Re: trouble dropping a table

["Tena Sakai" <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu>]

Many thanks, Scott and Kevin.

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu


-----Original Message-----

From:  	 Scott Whitney [swhitney(at)journyx(dot)com] 	 Sent:  	 Fri 6/26/2009 11:26 AM

Try:
drop table "gallo.plate_subject"

with the quotes.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov]
Sent: Fri 6/26/2009 11:31 AM
To: Tena Sakai; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] trouble dropping a table
 
"Tena Sakai" <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote: 
 
>    Schema |        Name         | Type  | Owner 
>   --------+---------------------+-------+-------
>    public | gallo.plate_subject | table | ysu
>   (1 row)
> 
> and I want to get rid of this table.
 
How about?:
 
DROP TABLE public."gallo.plate_subject"
 
It looks like you have a dot in your table name, which would require
quotes like that.
 
-Kevin