Reject degenerate SPLIT PARTITION with DEFAULT partition

Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>

Commit: d8af73010033cb8ad6c941942d6b03d74d7e4f7e
Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-05-20T11:32:57Z
Reject degenerate SPLIT PARTITION with DEFAULT partition

ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION allows a DEFAULT partition to be created
as one of the replacement partitions when the parent table does not
already have one.  However, it should not allow the degenerate case where
a non-DEFAULT partition keeps exactly the same bound as the split
partition and the command merely adds a DEFAULT partition through the
SPLIT PARTITION path.

Detect that case by comparing the bound of the split partition with the
bound of the only non-DEFAULT replacement partition, and raise an error
when they are the same.  Users should add a DEFAULT partition directly
with CREATE TABLE ... PARTITION OF ... DEFAULT or ALTER TABLE ... ATTACH
PARTITION ... DEFAULT instead.

Author: Chao Li <lic@highgo.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/C18878AB-DEB2-4A61-9995-A035DD644B81@gmail.com

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