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In case anybody was thinking of spending time on this:

The problem was the existence of a table of the same name in a different
schema.

ERROR: update or delete on "staging_deal" violates foreign key
constraint "staging_deal_fkey" on "staging_document"

should have in fact pointed to "doclib.staging_document"

Silly mistake, but it seems that ERROR messages don't specify the schema
of tables. It would be a time-saver to show them.

Thanks

Jaime Silvela wrote:
> I'm finding a strange sort of 'zombie' table behavior.
> I try to delete a row of a database that used to be referenced by a
> table that has now been deleted.
>
> I do
> delete from staging_deal where staging_deal_id = 1
> and get
> ERROR: update or delete on "staging_deal" violates foreign key
> constraint "staging_deal_fkey" on "staging_document"
> DETAIL: Key (staging_deal_id)=(1) is still referenced from table
> "staging_document".
>
> I try to find that table
> select * from staging_document
> but
> ERROR: relation "staging_document" does not exist
>
> However pg_class does know that table
> select * from pg_class where relname = 'staging_document'
> gives me a row
>
> The version is
> "PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.0.3"
>
> I've tried reindexing pg_class, but the issue hasn't been solved.
> Restarting Postgres doesn't help either.
> On thing I tried in a test deployment was to delete the row from
> pg_class, but I get
> ERROR: could not open relation with OID 22427646
> type errors, and it seems to leave me worse off.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you
> Jaime
>
>
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