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Column references are not allowed in default expressions and partition bound expressions, and are restricted as such once the transformation of their expressions is done. However, trying to use more complex column references can lead to confusing error messages. For example, trying to use a two-field column reference name for default expressions and partition bounds leads to "missing FROM-clause entry for table", which makes no sense in their respective context. In order to make the errors generated more useful, this commit adds more verbose messages when transforming column references depending on the context. This has a little consequence though: for example an expression using an aggregate with a column reference as argument would cause an error to be generated for the column reference, while the aggregate was the problem reported before this commit because column references get transformed first. The confusion exists for default expressions for a long time, and the problem is new as of v12 for partition bounds. Still per the lack of complaints on the matter no backpatch is done. The patch has been written by Amit Langote and me, and Tom Lane has provided the improvement of the documentation for default expressions on the CREATE TABLE page. Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190326020853.GM2558@paquier.xyz
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