Re: schema question

From: "Sean Davis" <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov>
To: "Isaac Vetter" <ivetter(at)math(dot)purdue(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: schema question
Date: 2007-12-11 16:01:36
Message-ID: 264855a00712110801o47637b61vfb17e1e55dcc673c@mail.gmail.com
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On Dec 11, 2007 10:57 AM, Isaac Vetter <ivetter(at)math(dot)purdue(dot)edu> wrote:

> Hi All;
>
> I'm much more of a web developer than dba, that's why I'm asking this of
> the novice list.
>
> I've got a database in postgresql 7.4 with 111 tables.
>
> I recently created the 111th table and I cannot create foreign key
> constraints.
>
> Postgresql acts like the new table is in a different schema that the
> referenced table. Additionally, if I go back to a previously created
> table and try to rename a foreign key column (by dropping and adding) I
> cannot recreate the foreign key. The error that I get is that the
> referenced schema does not exist:
>
> ERROR: schema "table2" does not exist
>
> If I specify the schema name on both tablenames, when adding the
> constraint:
>
> alter table public.table1 add foreign key(table2_id) references
> public.table2.id;
>

This should be:

public.table2(id)

Does that fix the problem?

Sean

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