PostgreSQL Error: Relation already exists

Question

I am trying to create a table that was dropped previously.

But when I do the CREATE TABLE A ... I am getting below error:

Rela

Answer 1

In my case, it wasn't until I PAUSEd the batch file and scrolled up a bit, that wasn't the only error I had gotten. My DROP command had become DROP and so the table wasn't dropping in the first place (thus the relation did indeed still exist). The  I've learned is called a Byte Order Mark (BOM). Opening this in Notepad++, re-save the SQL file with Encoding set to UTM-8 without BOM and it runs fine.