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Rebuilding a partitioned table (e.g. because its partition key changed) generates a script that creates a temporary partitioned table, adds a DEFAULT partition to it purely so the row-copy INSERT doesn't fail on rows that match none of the real partitions, copies the rows across, and renames everything into place. The scaffolding DEFAULT partition was never removed, so a source table with no default partition of its own ended up with an extra one in the rebuilt target, and Schema Diff reported the table as different forever after.

Worse, if the source table did have a genuine default partition, the generated script tried to create it as well as the scaffolding one, and PostgreSQL only allows a single DEFAULT partition per parent, so applying the script failed outright.

The fix

get_sql_from_diff() now checks whether the source table already has a default partition and only asks the template to scaffold one when it doesn't; partition_diff.sql only creates that scaffolding partition (and drops it again once the row copy is done) in that case, leaving a genuine source default partition to be carried across, renamed into place, by the normal per-partition rename loop.

Testing

Added test_schema_diff_partition_default.py, covering both a source table without a default partition (the scaffolding one must be dropped) and one with a genuine default partition (it must survive and the script must not attempt to create two).

tools.schema_diff and browser.server_groups.servers.databases.schemas.tables (473 tests) pass against PostgreSQL 18; pycodestyle is clean.

Fixes #10301.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved partitioned-table migrations when source and target tables have different partition definitions.
    • Prevented duplicate default partitions and accidental reuse of temporary partition names.
    • Preserved existing default partitions and removed temporary scaffolding partitions after data migration when empty.
    • Continued supporting migrations without default partitions while preserving out-of-bounds rows.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for migrations with and without default partitions.
    • Verified partition counts, cleanup, data preservation, and schema comparison results.

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Schema Diff now rebuilds partitioned tables without mutating comparison data. PostgreSQL and PPAS templates conditionally create and remove temporary default partitions while preserving unmatched rows. Regression coverage validates rebuild results. Module registration now removes duplicate references.

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Partition default scaffolding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Control scaffolding during partition rebuilds
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/partitions/__init__.py
get_sql_from_diff copies target and source partition data before assigning temporary names. It detects source default partitions and controls scaffolding.
Coordinate partition rebuild handling
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/schema_diff_table_utils.py, web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/partitions/sql/*/default/partition_diff.sql
Partition rebuilds skip generic partition handling. PostgreSQL and PPAS templates conditionally create scaffolding and drop it only when empty.
Validate partition rebuild results
web/pgadmin/tools/schema_diff/tests/test_schema_diff_partition_default.py
The regression test applies diffs for partitioned tables with and without source default partitions. It checks partition counts, row preservation, comparison results, and database cleanup.

Module registration deduplication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deduplicate module registration
web/pgadmin/utils/__init__.py
PgAdminModule.register removes duplicate submodules and avoids repeated parent-module references.

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The rebuild now removes only temporary default partitions and preserves genuine defaults and unmatched rows. It is mergeable with owner awareness because an interruption or concurrent write during the multi-step replacement could still leave the rebuilt table in a partial state.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #10301. The scripts create scaffolding DEFAULT partitions only when needed, copy rows, remove empty scaffolding partitions, preserve genuine DEFAULT partitions, and avoid dup…
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The changes satisfy issue #10301. The scripts create scaffolding DEFAULT partitions only when needed, copy rows, remove empty scaffolding partitions, preserve genuine DEFAULT partitions, and avoid duplicate DEFAULT partitions. The regression test verifies partition counts, row preservation, and identical source and target databases.

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All changes support the Schema Diff partition rebuild fix. The data-copy protection, partition diff handling, submodule deduplication, and regression tests address repeated generation and metadata mutation related to the same rebuild workflow.

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In
`@web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/partitions/sql/pg/default/partition_diff.sql`:
- Around line 4-16: Update the scaffold default-partition name in both
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/partitions/sql/pg/default/partition_diff.sql
lines 4-16 and
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/partitions/sql/ppas/default/partition_diff.sql
lines 4-16 to derive it from the randomized temporary table name, and use that
same unique name for creation and DROP TABLE cleanup; no other changes are
needed.
- Around line 12-16: Before dropping the scaffolding default partition, validate
that it is empty and abort if it contains rows; update the conditional block in
partition_diff.sql for both
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/partitions/sql/pg/default/partition_diff.sql
lines 12-16 and
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/tables/templates/partitions/sql/ppas/default/partition_diff.sql
lines 12-16. Preserve the existing DROP TABLE behavior only for an empty
scaffold.

In `@web/pgadmin/tools/schema_diff/tests/test_schema_diff_partition_default.py`:
- Around line 37-81: Extend the schema-diff fixture test around DDL_SOURCE and
DDL_TARGET to insert rows into both the regular and DEFAULT partitions of each
target table before rebuilding. After each rebuild, assert the expected row
counts in the corresponding partitions, covering INSERT ... SELECT data copying
and routing for both partition configurations.
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dpage added a commit to dpage/pgadmin4 that referenced this pull request Aug 20, 2026
scaffold default partitions, and skip redundant partition ALTER diff

Address CodeRabbit review findings on the partitioned-table rebuild
added in pgadmin-org#10301:

- The scaffolding default partition's name was derived from the
  original table's name (<table>_default), a deterministic name that
  can collide with an existing relation. Derive it from the already
  string.randomised temporary table name instead, matching the
  collision-avoidance convention already used for the temp partitioned
  table and its temp partitions.

- The scaffolding default partition was unconditionally dropped once
  the row copy finished. Any row from the source table that fell
  outside every real partition's bounds landed in that scaffold and
  was silently destroyed. The generated SQL now only drops the
  scaffold if it is still empty; otherwise it is kept, so the rows it
  caught survive as the default partition of the rebuilt table.

- Separately, found and fixed a data-loss bug this exposed: whenever a
  table's partitions differ on both source and target, the generic
  table-diff also ran its own ALTER-based partition add/remove/detach
  logic (get_sql_from_table_diff/_check_for_partitions_in_sql)
  alongside the full-table rebuild path in schema_diff_table_utils.py.
  Because that generic path detaches a bound-changed partition using
  its real name before the rebuild's row-copy INSERT ... SELECT runs
  against the original table, the detached partition's rows were
  invisible to that copy and got dropped when the rebuild's own
  cleanup step removed the now-standalone table - causing the
  run-python-tests-pg/run-feature-tests-pg CI failures on PR pgadmin-org#10316.
  The generic partition diffing is now skipped whenever both sides are
  partitioned, since the rebuild path already handles every partition
  difference itself.

- Strengthened the regression test: both fixtures now carry real rows
  (including rows that only fit a DEFAULT partition, and a row outside
  every rebuilt partition's bounds) so the row-copy and row-routing
  paths are actually exercised, not just the DDL shape.
dpage added 2 commits August 25, 2026 09:53
…a partitioned table (pgadmin-org#10301)

Rebuilding a partitioned table (e.g. because its partition key changed)
generates a script that creates a temporary partitioned table, adds a
DEFAULT partition to it purely so the row-copy INSERT doesn't fail on
rows that match none of the real partitions, copies the rows across and
renames everything into place. The scaffolding DEFAULT partition was
never removed, so a source table with no default partition of its own
ended up with an extra one in the rebuilt target, and Schema Diff would
report the table as different forever after.

Worse, if the source table did have a genuine default partition, the
generated script tried to create it as well as the scaffolding one, and
Postgres only allows a single DEFAULT partition per parent, so applying
the script failed outright.

get_sql_from_diff() now checks whether the source table already has a
default partition and only asks the template to scaffold one when it
doesn't; partition_diff.sql only creates that scaffolding partition (and
drops it again once the row copy is done) in that case, leaving a
genuine source default partition to be carried across, renamed into
place, by the normal per-partition rename loop.

Added test_schema_diff_partition_default.py, covering both a source
table without a default partition (the scaffolding one must be dropped)
and one with a genuine default partition (it must survive and the
script must not attempt to create two).
scaffold default partitions, and skip redundant partition ALTER diff

Address CodeRabbit review findings on the partitioned-table rebuild
added in pgadmin-org#10301:

- The scaffolding default partition's name was derived from the
  original table's name (<table>_default), a deterministic name that
  can collide with an existing relation. Derive it from the already
  string.randomised temporary table name instead, matching the
  collision-avoidance convention already used for the temp partitioned
  table and its temp partitions.

- The scaffolding default partition was unconditionally dropped once
  the row copy finished. Any row from the source table that fell
  outside every real partition's bounds landed in that scaffold and
  was silently destroyed. The generated SQL now only drops the
  scaffold if it is still empty; otherwise it is kept, so the rows it
  caught survive as the default partition of the rebuilt table.

- Separately, found and fixed a data-loss bug this exposed: whenever a
  table's partitions differ on both source and target, the generic
  table-diff also ran its own ALTER-based partition add/remove/detach
  logic (get_sql_from_table_diff/_check_for_partitions_in_sql)
  alongside the full-table rebuild path in schema_diff_table_utils.py.
  Because that generic path detaches a bound-changed partition using
  its real name before the rebuild's row-copy INSERT ... SELECT runs
  against the original table, the detached partition's rows were
  invisible to that copy and got dropped when the rebuild's own
  cleanup step removed the now-standalone table - causing the
  run-python-tests-pg/run-feature-tests-pg CI failures on PR pgadmin-org#10316.
  The generic partition diffing is now skipped whenever both sides are
  partitioned, since the rebuild path already handles every partition
  difference itself.

- Strengthened the regression test: both fixtures now carry real rows
  (including rows that only fit a DEFAULT partition, and a row outside
  every rebuilt partition's bounds) so the row-copy and row-routing
  paths are actually exercised, not just the DDL shape.
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Rebased onto current upstream/master (clean, no conflicts) to pick up the CI Yarn/Corepack fix and other infra changes since this branch was opened, which should resolve the run-python-tests-pg failures. Also re-ran tools.schema_diff.tests.test_schema_diff_partition_default locally against PostgreSQL 18 post-rebase: 2/2 tests passed.

The generated Schema Diff script for a partitioned table rebuild could
come out referring to a relation that has never existed, along the lines
of:

    CREATE TABLE schema.temp_partitioned_2 (
        LIKE schema.temp_partitioned_1 INCLUDING ALL
    ) PARTITION BY RANGE (col1);

so that applying it fails with 'relation "schema.temp_partitioned_1"
does not exist'.

There are two things going on here, and both are fixed.

PgAdminModule.register() is called once per application instance, whilst
the blueprint objects themselves are module level singletons, so each
sub-class that appends its sub-modules from its own register() (most of
them do, TableModule included) leaves a duplicate entry behind every
time a second application is created in the same process. Nothing in
production notices, because production creates a single app, but the
regression suite creates several, and anything walking self.submodules
then does its work once per duplicate: with four copies of the partition
sub-module, get_sql_from_submodule_diff generated the same partition
rebuild four times over. self.submodules is now de-duplicated as the
blueprint registers, and parentmodules likewise only gains an entry it
does not already hold.

The second call was only harmful because PartitionsView.get_sql_from_diff
stashed its temporary names on the caller's own dictionaries, replacing
the table's real name with a temporary one, so a subsequent call read the
first call's temporary name back as the original. It now works on copies
and leaves the comparison data it is handed alone, which makes it safe to
call more than once regardless of how it is reached.
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Pushed a fix for the failing run-python-tests-pg jobs. The new test was failing on every matrix job with relation "test_partition_default_diff.temp_partitioned_NNNNNNN" does not exist, and it turned out to be reproducible locally only when the whole suite runs, not when the test runs on its own, which is what made it interesting.

PgAdminModule.register() is called once per application instance, whilst the blueprint objects are module level singletons, so every sub-class that appends its sub-modules from its own register() (most of them, TableModule included) leaves a duplicate entry behind each time a second application is created in the same process. Production only ever creates one app so nothing notices, but the regression suite creates several, and anything that walks self.submodules then does its work once per duplicate. With four copies of the partition sub-module, get_sql_from_submodule_diff generated the partition rebuild four times over.

The repeat was only fatal because PartitionsView.get_sql_from_diff stashed its temporary names on the caller's own dictionaries, replacing the table's real name with a temporary one, so the second call read the first call's temp_partitioned_NNNNNNN back as the original name and emitted CREATE TABLE temp_partitioned_2 (LIKE temp_partitioned_1 ...).

Both levels are fixed: submodules and parentmodules are de-duplicated as the blueprint registers, and get_sql_from_diff now works on copies and leaves the comparison data it is handed alone, so it is safe to call more than once however it is reached. Full Python suite passes locally.

Note that the same fix is on #10305, which was failing for the same reason; whichever of the two lands second will carry an identical change.

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