Re: Odd PL/PgSQL Error -- relation "X" does not exist when using index expression - Mailing list pgsql-sql

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:43:13PM -0800, Greg Wittel wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem with a PL/PGSQL query that executes some 
> dynamic SQL code.  The code basically creates a dynamically named table, 
> some indexes, etc.
> 
> The problem seems to be the an index expression. If I remove it and do a 
> plain index on the column, all works correctly.  If I keep it, I get a 
> "relation does not exist" error.

The error appears to happen for anything that uses SPI.  A C function
that executes the following fails with the same error:

SPI_exec("CREATE TABLE foo (t text); CREATE INDEX foo_idx ON foo (lower(t))", 0);

In 8.2.3 the error location is:

LOCATION:  RangeVarGetRelid, namespace.c:200

-- 
Michael Fuhr