Details
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Bug
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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10.5, 10.6, 10.11, 11.1(EOL), 11.2, 11.4, 10.4(EOL), 11.0(EOL), 11.3(EOL)
Description
PARTITION BY LIST [COLUMNS] and PARTITION BY RANGE [COLUMNS] are limited to certain data types by design, for example, they don't support TIMESTAMP:
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10.4 8e337e016ff882862d4d2f32488b5142370ff8da |
MariaDB [test]> create or replace table t (a timestamp) partition by range columns (a) (partition p0 values less than ('2024-01-01'), partition p1 values less than (maxvalue)); |
ERROR 1659 (HY000): Field 'a' is of a not allowed type for this type of partitioning |
However, if only the default partition is defined, the operation succeeds:
MariaDB [test]> create or replace table t (a timestamp) partition by range columns (a) (partition p1 values less than (maxvalue)); |
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.040 sec) |
Same for DEFAULT partition in PARTITION BY LIST COLUMNS.
It causes confusing errors afterwards, for example upon an attempt to reorganize the partition:
MariaDB [test]> alter table t reorganize partition p1 into (partition p0 values less than ('2030-01-01'), partition p1 values less than (maxvalue)); |
ERROR 1659 (HY000): Field 'a' is of a not allowed type for this type of partitioning |
Maybe there can be other unexpected effects which aren't obvious right away.
If the reason is that a partitioned table with only default partition is the same as a non-partitioned table, then this should also work, but it doesn't:
MariaDB [test]> create or replace table t (a timestamp) partition by range (a) (partition p1 values less than (maxvalue)); |
ERROR 1659 (HY000): Field 'a' is of a not allowed type for this type of partitioning |
and in any case it is not true, it still counts as a partitioned table, with all their limitations etc.