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Re: Add SPLIT PARTITION/MERGE PARTITIONS commands

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

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From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-10-27T12:13:36Z
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  1. Adjust errcode in checkPartition()

  2. Fix usage of palloc() in MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(s) code

  3. Implement ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION ... command

  4. Implement ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS ... command

  5. Calculate agglevelsup correctly when Aggref contains a CTE.

  6. Use PqMsg_* macros in applyparallelworker.c.

  7. Restrict psql meta-commands in plain-text dumps.

  8. Ensure we have a snapshot when updating various system catalogs.

  9. Use specific collation where needed in new test

  10. Expand virtual generated columns in the planner

  11. Virtual generated columns

  12. Define PG_LOGICAL_DIR for path pg_logical/ in data folder

  13. Revert support for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION(S) commands

  14. Avoid repeated table name lookups in createPartitionTable()

  15. Provide deterministic order for catalog queries in partition_split.sql

  16. Don't copy extended statistics during MERGE/SPLIT partition operations

  17. Fix the name collision detection in MERGE/SPLIT partition operations

  18. Fix regression tests conflict in 3ca43dbbb6

  19. Add permission check for MERGE/SPLIT partition operations

  20. Fix one more portability shortcoming in new test_pg_dump test.

  21. Inherit parent's AM for partition MERGE/SPLIT operations

  22. Add tab completion for partition MERGE/SPLIT operations

  23. Rename tables in tests of partition MERGE/SPLIT operations

  24. Make new partitions with parent's persistence during MERGE/SPLIT

  25. Document the way partition MERGE/SPLIT operations create new partitions

  26. Change the way ATExecMergePartitions() handles the name collision

  27. Grammar fixes for split/merge partitions code

  28. Checks for ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT/MERGE PARTITIONS ... commands

  29. Fix some grammer errors from error messages and codes comments

  30. Support TZ and OF format codes in to_timestamp().

  31. Support identity columns in partitioned tables

  32. Fix indentation in twophase.c

  33. Fix corner-case planner failure for MERGE.

  34. Doc: fix documentation example for bytea hex output format.

  35. Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru>
wrote:

> Hi, Jiah He!
>
> 1.
>  >duplicated CommandCounterIncrement call?
>
> Probably this duplication is necessary to rename partition correctly ...
>

The second CommandCounterIncrement() is needed to make the renamed relation
visible within our transaction.  Why do we need the first one?  I see tests
pass without it.

Also, I doubt this is correct in the partitions_listdatum_intersection()
function.

    foreach_node(Const, val1, list1)
    {
        if (val1->constisnull)
        {
            if (isnull2)
            {
                result = lappend(result, val1);
                return result;
            }
            isnull1 = true;
            continue;
        }

The branch handling null value in the outer loop, uses null2 flag from the
inner loop.  I think for the null value of the outer loop we still need to
run inner loop to search for the matching null value.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov
Supabase