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    Allow CREATE FOREIGN TABLE to include SERIAL columns. · b1420686
    Tom Lane authored
    The behavior is that the required sequence is created locally, which is
    appropriate because the default expression will be evaluated locally.
    Per gripe from Brad Nicholson that this case was refused with a confusing
    error message.  We could have improved the error message but it seems
    better to just allow the case.
    
    Also, remove ALTER TABLE's arbitrary prohibition against being applied to
    foreign tables, which was pretty inconsistent considering we allow it for
    views, sequences, and other relation types that aren't even called tables.
    This is needed to avoid breaking pg_dump, which sometimes emits column
    defaults using separate ALTER TABLE commands.  (I think this can happen
    even when the default is not associated with a sequence, so that was a
    pre-existing bug once we allowed column defaults for foreign tables.)
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