Re: schema question

From: Isaac Vetter <ivetter(at)math(dot)purdue(dot)edu>
To: Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: schema question
Date: 2007-12-11 16:18:28
Message-ID: 475EB854.5050309@math.purdue.edu
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Sean Davis wrote:
> 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?

OMG!

This was exactly the problem: a stupid syntax error.

I've literally created hundreds of foreign keys in pgsql, but did not
see the problem with this one.

Much thanks, Sean.

Isaac

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