Re: ERROR: relation "employees" does not exist - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: ERROR: relation "employees" does not exist
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Msg-id 20130311065334.GA4918@tux
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In response to ERROR: relation "employees" does not exist  (Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed Postgresql 9.2 on my Debian Wheezy system.
>
> I want to study and learn about new data type, the range type.
>
> I'm following the tutorial:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/7/73/Range-types-pgopen-2012.pdf
>
> but when I run the command:
> CREATE TABLE employee_schedule (
>   id serial,
>   employee_id integer REFERENCES employees(id),
>   start_time timestamptz,
>   end_time timestamptz
> );
>
> I get an error message:
>
> NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
> "employee_schedule_id_seq" for serial column "employee_schedule.id"
> ERROR:  relation "employees" does not exist
>
> So how can I solve this problem?

Create a simple table first:

create table employees (id int primary key, ...)



or omit the REFERENCES employees(id).





Andreas
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