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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
To: flanery@tram.epm.ornl.gov (Ray E. Flanery Jr)
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Strange things 
Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
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flanery@tram.epm.ornl.gov (Ray E. Flanery Jr) writes:
> 1) I am reinitializing the POSTGRES database, cleardbdir works fine. If I
>    check ~postgres/data/* the only thing left there is the 'files' directory.
>    When I run initdb, it appears to set everything up properly, except that
>    when I go to add users, the ones who had access to the old database
>    already exist?!? How can this be?
> 2) I have created a database and now attempt to DEFINE a type and a function.
>    a) if I am doing this using the pqlib from code, it tells me they already
>       exist, if I do it from the command line, everything is fine?!?

some possible explanations:
- your libpq program and your monitor are connecting to different
postmasters due to switch/environment differences.
- differences between PGDATA and the compiled database path (wrong
directory cleared/rebuilt).
- the postmaster was left running and has pages from the old database
in its cache.
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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