Based on a reply to reporting this as a bug, moving rows out of foreign partitions is not yet implemented so this is behaving as expected. There's a mention of this limitation in the Notes section of the Update docs.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:12 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 2019-Feb-22, Derek Hans wrote: > > > I've set up 2 instances of PostgreSQL 11. On instance A, I created a > table > > with 2 local partitions and 2 partitions on instance B using foreign data > > wrappers, following https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-11-sharding.html. > > Inserting rows into this table works as expected, with rows ending up in > > the appropriate partition. However, updating those rows only moves them > > across partitions in some of the situations: > > > > - From local partition to local partition > > - From local partition to foreign partition > > > > Rows are not moved > > > > - From foreign partition to local partition > > - From foreign partition to foreign partition > > > > Is this the expected behavior? Am I missing something or configured > > something incorrectly? > > Sounds like a bug to me. > > -- > Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services > -- *Derek* +1 (415) 754-0519 | derek.h...@gmail.com | Skype: derek.hans