diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/commands/foreign_constraint.c b/src/backend/distributed/commands/foreign_constraint.c
index 6d6abe07c..0619df4ff 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/commands/foreign_constraint.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/commands/foreign_constraint.c
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@ HasForeignKeyToReferenceTable(Oid relationId)
 
 		if (!IsDistributedTable(referencedTableId))
 		{
+			heapTuple = systable_getnext(scanDescriptor);
 			continue;
 		}