Mark J Hewitt <m.hewitt@computer.org> writes:
> Thanks for the humane treatment of such a mundae problem!
Well, it *is* a bug, albeit of the "misleading error message" variety
rather than anything more critical. If you are interested in applying
a source patch to fix that problem, see
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-patches/2001-06/msg00061.html
regards, tom lane
