Re: postgres_fdw foreign tables and serial columns

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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