On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:11 AM, Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.ba...@enterprisedb.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
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