| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Foreign tables don't enforce the partition constraint |
| Date: | 2017-03-31 20:57:53 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZKkvC0rTK5EG0j=5g7RiwrQAihvGhBoNM_NqwzGseN_Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:11 AM, Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Per https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-createforeigntable.html,
> constraints on the foreign table should represent a constraint that is
> being enforced by the remote server.
Right. This is user error. Having the *local* server try to enforce
the constraint would slow down the system without guaranteeing
anything, because somebody could modify the table on the remote server
directly.
> Similarly, a partition constraint
> should also be enforced at the foreign server. Probably we should
> update documentation of create foreign table to mention this.
That is a good idea.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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