On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:59:27PM -0300, Juan Rojas wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96.
> I have a problem when I drop a table which contains a serial field. The
> system drops the table but the associated sequence still remains in the
> catalog, so if I want to create the table again with the same structure,
> CREATE TABLE throws an error because the sequence that it's trying to create
> already exists.
That's easy enough: just run a 'DROP SEQUENCE <sequence_name>' to remove the
sequence before re-creating the table. You may discover the name of the
sequence using '\ds' in psql.
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