Re: [HACKERS] UPDATE of partition key

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Amit Kapila  wrote:
> Few comments:
> 1.
> Operating directly on partition doesn't allow update to move row.
> Refer below example:
> create table t1(c1 int) partition by range(c1);
> create table t1_part_1 partition of t1 for values from (1) to (100);
> create table t1_part_2 partition of t1 for values from (100) to (200);
> insert into t1 values(generate_series(1,11));
> insert into t1 values(generate_series(110,120));
>
> postgres=# update t1_part_1 set c1=122 where c1=11;
> ERROR:  new row for relation "t1_part_1" violates partition constraint
> DETAIL:  Failing row contains (122).

I think that's correct behavior.

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