How can you have two tables with the same name in one database ??
How do you differentiate them when you use it in queries ??
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> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:23:12 +0100 (BST)
> From: "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
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> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Incomprehensible behaviour of a foreign key.
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> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
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> > Blah, blah, blah.
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> Further hair pulling and trying many many things and I finally discovered why
> this foreign key constraint problem was so weird, I looked up all pg_class
> entries with that name immediately before the breaking statement. Turns out I
> had another table of the same name and design in another schema.
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> I even knew about that but because an earlier part of the process was moving
> that data out of that extra table, which had inadvertently been created in the
> wrong schema, and placing it into the correct place I had forgotten about it.
> That despite the fact that I even looked at that portion of code this
afternoon
> and merely noted what it was doing, i.e. it's aim, completely missing the fact
> that the drop table statement was commented out.
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> I won't say panic over because it isn't for me but it's pretty clear that I'm
> not kicking some corner case bug in postgresql. Thanks for everyone's
> input. Spectacular response times as usual.
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> Nigel J. Andrews
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