# How to troubleshoot database errors in an outdated plugin?

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**Created:** [February 29, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-troubleshoot-database-errors-in-an-outdated-plugin/297339 "2024-02-29T22:08:23Z")
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> [@zibetnu](#):
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> `PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR: relation "quizzes" does not exist`

Looks like you haven’t run migrations

You need an extra environment variable to run them for plugins, see:

> [@Error when running plugin specs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-running-plugin-specs/274701/2):
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> Looking at the test database, the chat migrations appear not to have run. \> psql discourse\_test # \d Oh …! I forgot to add the first environment variable to include plugins with this db migration (because chat is still a plugin): LOAD\_PLUGINS=1 RAILS\_ENV=test rake db:migrate

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