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Tom Lane bfb993b1bb Reject system columns as elements of foreign keys.
Up through v11 it was sensible to use the "oid" system column as
a foreign key column, but since that was removed there's no visible
usefulness in making any of the remaining system columns a foreign
key.  Moreover, since the TupleTableSlot rewrites in v12, such cases
actively fail because of implicit assumptions that only user columns
appear in foreign keys.  The lack of complaints about that seems
like good evidence that no one is trying to do it.  Hence, rather
than trying to repair those assumptions (of which there are at least
two, maybe more), let's just forbid the case up front.

Per this patch, a system column in either the referenced or
referencing side of a foreign key will draw this error; however,
putting one in the referenced side would have failed later anyway,
since we don't allow unique indexes to be made on system columns.

Per bug #17877 from Alexander Lakhin.  Back-patch to v12; the
case still appears to work in v11, so we shouldn't break it there.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17877-4bcc658e33df6de1@postgresql.org
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	https://www.postgresql.org/download/

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
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