Shashi Kanth Boddula wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using PostgreSQL 7.4.6 on SuSE Linux . I installed slony-1
> successfully . I am going through the slony-1 documentation
> step-by-step . In the documentation , in the "Replicating your first
> database " section , i am facing one problem . I followed all the
> steps , but when i  issued the given bellow command , i got an error .
>
> *postgres at postgresql1:~> pgbench -s 1 -c 5 -t 1000 -U pgbench -h
> localhost pgbench *
>
> *                                       *
>
> *                                       ERROR:  relation "branches"
> does not exist *
>
> Please , anybody tell me what is the cause for this problem.
>
It seems to me that you probably didn't follow all of the steps.

One of the *earlier* steps involved running:

pgbench -i -s 1 -U $PGBENCHUSER -h $MASTERHOST $MASTERDBNAME

That is required to set up the pgbench tables.