In the relatedExists method of the Doctrine_Record class the exception is incorrectly thrown imho

$q = Doctrine::createQuery()
        ->from('User u')
        ->leftJoin('Role r');

$users = $q->execute();

foreach ($users as $user)
{
  $role_name = $user->relatedExists('Role') ? $user->getRole()->getName() : '';
}

public function relatedExists($name)
    {
        $newReference = false;
        if ( ! $this->hasReference($name)) {
            $newReference = true;
        }

        $reference = $this->$name;
        if ( ! $reference instanceof Doctrine_Record) {
            throw new Doctrine_Record_Exception(
                'You can only call relatedExists() on a relationship that '.
                'returns an instance of Doctrine_Record'
            );
        }
        $exists = $reference->exists();

        if ($newReference) {
            $this->clearRelated($name);
        }

        return $exists;
    }

public function relatedExists($name)
    {
        $newReference = false;
        if ( ! $this->hasReference($name)) {
            $newReference = true;
        }

        $reference = $this->$name;
        if ( ! $reference && ! $this->getTable()->hasRelation($name)) {
            throw new Doctrine_Record_Exception(
                'You can only call relatedExists() on a relationship that '.
                'returns an instance of Doctrine_Record'
            );
        }

        $exists = $reference ? $reference->exists() : false;

        if ($newReference) {
            $this->clearRelated($name);
        }

        return $exists;
    }