You probably need to make sure to double quote the tgname in your drops.

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Linh Luong wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there to drop a constraint when you add it separately with an alter
> statement.
>  
> alter table failuretypecategory1 add constraint fk_failuretypecategory1
> FOREIGN KEY (failurecategory1id)
>   REFERENCES failurecategory1 (id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE;
> 
> I tried 
> drop trigger <tgconstrname> on failurecategory1
> and 
> drop trigger <tgconstrname> on failuretypecategory1
> 
> and also
> 
> drop trigger <tgname> on failurecategory1
> and 
> drop trigger <tgname> on failuretypecategory1
> 
> 
> But it kept saying 
> ERROR:  DropTrigger: there is no trigger <tgname>/<tgconstrname> on
> relation failuretypecategory1
> 
> What am I doing wrong.
> 
> I tried dropping the table also and when I tried to delete from a table
> that it referenced above it gave the error that the table I just drop
> doesn't exist.  Obviously because I just removed it but the constraint
> it still there.. 


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