CREATE TABLE author (authorid INT, authorname VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE venue (venueid INT, venuename VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE paperfield (fieldid INT, paperid INT)
CREATE TABLE writes (paperid INT, authorid INT)
CREATE TABLE paperdataset (paperid INT, datasetid INT)
CREATE TABLE paperkeyphrase (paperid INT, keyphraseid INT)
CREATE TABLE cite (citingpaperid INT, citedpaperid INT)
CREATE TABLE dataset (datasetid INT, datasetname VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE keyphrase (keyphraseid INT, keyphrasename VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE journal (journalid INT, journalname VARCHAR)
CREATE TABLE paper (paperid INT, title VARCHAR, venueid INT, year INT, numciting INT, numcitedby INT, journalid INT)
CREATE TABLE field (fieldid INT)

Earliest paper published by srinivasan iyer
SELECT DISTINCT paper.paperid, paper.year FROM author, paper, writes WHERE author.authorname = 'srinivasan iyer' AND paper.year = (SELECT MIN(PAPERalias1.year) FROM author AS AUTHORalias1, paper AS PAPERalias1, writes AS WRITESalias1 WHERE AUTHORalias1.authorname = 'srinivasan iyer' AND WRITESalias1.authorid = AUTHORalias1.authorid AND WRITESalias1.paperid = PAPERalias1.paperid) AND writes.authorid = author.authorid AND writes.paperid = paper.paperid
WITH "_u_0" AS (SELECT MIN("PAPERalias1"."year") FROM "author" AS "AUTHORalias1" JOIN "writes" AS "WRITESalias1" ON "AUTHORalias1"."authorid" = "WRITESalias1"."authorid" JOIN "paper" AS "PAPERalias1" ON "PAPERalias1"."paperid" = "WRITESalias1"."paperid" WHERE "AUTHORalias1"."authorname" = 'srinivasan iyer') SELECT DISTINCT "paper"."paperid", "paper"."year" FROM "author" JOIN "writes" ON "author"."authorid" = "writes"."authorid" JOIN "paper" ON "paper"."paperid" = "writes"."paperid" JOIN "_u_0" AS "_u_0" ON "_u_0"."" = "paper"."year" WHERE "author"."authorname" = 'srinivasan iyer'