Reject ALTER TABLE .. CLUSTER earlier for partitioned tables

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: c336133c65a7ac3223a3cb492b8bbf4fa3999375
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2026-03-16T08:48:39Z
Reject ALTER TABLE .. CLUSTER earlier for partitioned tables

ALTER TABLE .. CLUSTER ON and SET WITHOUT CLUSTER are not supported for
partitioned tables and already fail with a check happening when the
sub-command is executed, not when it is prepared.

This commit moves the relkind check for partitioned tables to happen
when the sub-command is prepared in ATSimplePermissions().  This matches
with the practice of the other sub-commands of ALTER TABLE, shaving one
translatable string.

mark_index_clustered() can be a bit simplified, switching one
elog(ERROR) to an assertion.  Note that mark_index_clustered() can also
be called through a CLUSTER command, but it cannot be reached for a
partitioned table, per the assertion based on the relkind in
cluster_rel(), and there is only one caller of rebuild_relation().

Author: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEoWx2kggo1N2kDH6OSfXHL_5gKg3DqQ0PdNuL4LH4XSTKJ3-g@mail.gmail.com

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