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On 15-May-2013, at 18:56, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)" <bnicholson@hp.com> writes:
>> [ this error message sucks: ]
>> test=# create foreign table local_foo (id serial) server test_server options (table_name 'foo');
>> ERROR: referenced relation "local_foo" is not a table
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> Yeah, I'd noticed that myself. We could probably tweak the code to
> issue a different error message and/or add a HINT if the serial's
> parent relation is a foreign table. I'm not exactly sure what it
> should say though. Thoughts?
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+1 for the HINT message addition.
Regards,
Atri