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PostgreSQL: Documentation: 16: CREATE TABLE October 15, 2026: PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 Released! Documentation → PostgreSQL 16 Supported Versions: Current (18) / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 Development Versions: 19 / devel Unsupported versions: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.6 / 9.5 / 9.4 / 9.3 / 9.2 / 9.1 / 9.0 / 8.4 / 8.3 / 8.2 / 8.1 / 8.0 / 7.4 / 7.3 / 7.2 / 7.1 CREATE TABLE Prev Up SQL Commands Home Next CREATE TABLE CREATE TABLE — define a new table Synopsis CREATE [ [ GLOBAL | LOCAL ] { TEMPORARY | TEMP } | UNLOGGED ] TABLE [ IF NOT EXISTS ] table_name ( [ { column_name data_type [ STORAGE { PLAIN | EXTERNAL | EXTENDED | MAIN | DEFAULT } ] [ COMPRESSION compression_method ] [ COLLATE collation ] [ column_constraint [ ... ] ] | table_constraint | LIKE source_table [ like_option ... ] } [, ... ] ] ) [ INHERITS ( parent_table [, ... ] ) ] [ PARTITION BY { RANGE | LIST | HASH } ( { column_name | ( expression ) } [ COLLATE collation ] [ opclass ] [, ... ] ) ] [ USING method ] [ WITH ( storage_parameter [= value] [, ... ] ) | WITHOUT OIDS ] [ ON COMMIT { PRESERVE ROWS | DELETE ROWS | DROP } ] [ TABLESPACE tablespace_name ] CREATE [ [ GLOBAL | LOCAL ] { TEMPORARY | TEMP } | UNLOGGED ] TABLE [ IF NOT EXISTS ] table_name OF type_name [ ( { column_name [ WITH OPTIONS ] [ column_constraint [ ... ] ] | table_constraint } [, ... ] ) ] [ PARTITION BY { RANGE | LIST | HASH } ( { column_name | ( expression ) } [ COLLATE collation ] [ opclass ] [, ... ] ) ] [ USING method ] [ WITH ( storage_parameter [= value] [, ... ] ) | WITHOUT OIDS ] [ ON COMMIT { PRESERVE ROWS | DELETE ROWS | DROP } ] [ TABLESPACE tablespace_name ] CREATE [ [ GLOBAL | LOCAL ] { TEMPORARY | TEMP } | UNLOGGED ] TABLE [ IF NOT EXISTS ] table_name PARTITION OF parent_table [ ( { column_name [ WITH OPTIONS ] [ column_constraint [ ... ] ] | table_constraint } [, ... ] ) ] { FOR VALUES partition_bound_spec | DEFAULT } [ PARTITION BY { RANGE | LIST | HASH } ( { column_name | ( expression ) } [ COLLATE collation ] [ opclass ] [, ... ] ) ] [ USING method ] [ WITH ( storage_parameter [= value] [, ... ] ) | WITHOUT OIDS ] [ ON COMMIT { PRESERVE ROWS | DELETE ROWS | DROP } ] [ TABLESPACE tablespace_name ] where column_constraint is: [ CONSTRAINT constraint_name ] { NOT NULL | NULL | CHECK ( expression ) [ NO INHERIT ] | DEFAULT default_expr | GENERATED ALWAYS AS ( generation_expr ) STORED | GENERATED { ALWAYS | BY DEFAULT } AS IDENTITY [ ( sequence_options ) ] | UNIQUE [ NULLS [ NOT ] DISTINCT ] index_parameters | PRIMARY KEY index_parameters | REFERENCES reftable [ ( refcolumn ) ] [ MATCH FULL | MATCH PARTIAL | MATCH SIMPLE ] [ ON DELETE referential_action ] [ ON UPDATE referential_action ] } [ DEFERRABLE | NOT DEFERRABLE ] [ INITIALLY DEFERRED | INITIALLY IMMEDIATE ] and table_constraint is: [ CONSTRAINT constraint_name ] { CHECK ( expression ) [ NO INHERIT ] | UNIQUE [ NULLS [ NOT ] DISTINCT ] ( column_name [, ... ] ) index_parameters | PRIMARY KEY ( column_name [, ... ] ) index_parameters | EXCLUDE [ USING index_method ] ( exclude_element WITH operator [, ... ] ) index_parameters [ WHERE ( predicate ) ] | FOREIGN KEY ( column_name [, ... ] ) REFERENCES reftable [ ( refcolumn [, ... ] ) ] [ MATCH FULL | MATCH PARTIAL | MATCH SIMPLE ] [ ON DELETE referential_action ] [ ON UPDATE referential_action ] } [ DEFERRABLE | NOT DEFERRABLE ] [ INITIALLY DEFERRED | INITIALLY IMMEDIATE ] and like_option is: { INCLUDING | EXCLUDING } { COMMENTS | COMPRESSION | CONSTRAINTS | DEFAULTS | GENERATED | IDENTITY | INDEXES | STATISTICS | STORAGE | ALL } and partition_bound_spec is: IN ( partition_bound_expr [, ...] ) | FROM ( { partition_bound_expr | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) TO ( { partition_bound_expr | MINVALUE | MAXVALUE } [, ...] ) | WITH ( MODULUS numeric_literal, REMAINDER numeric_literal ) index_parameters in UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY, and EXCLUDE constraints are: [ INCLUDE ( column_name [, ... ] ) ] [ WITH ( storage_parameter [= value] [, ... ] ) ] [ USING INDEX TABLESPACE tablespace_name ] exclude_element in an EXCLUDE constraint is: { column_name | ( expression ) } [ COLLATE collation ] [ opclass [ ( opclass_parameter = value [, ... ] ) ] ] [ ASC | DESC ] [ NULLS { FIRST | LAST } ] referential_action in a FOREIGN KEY/REFERENCES constraint is: { NO ACTION | RESTRICT | CASCADE | SET NULL [ ( column_name [, ... ] ) ] | SET DEFAULT [ ( column_name [, ... ] ) ] } Description CREATE TABLE will create a new, initially empty table in the current database. The table will be owned by the user issuing the command. If a schema name is given (for example, CREATE TABLE myschema.mytable ...) then the table is created in the specified schema. Otherwise it is created in the current schema. Temporary tables exist in a special schema, so a schema name cannot be given when creating a temporary table. The name of the table must be distinct from the name of any other relation (table, sequence, index, view, materialized view, or foreign table) in the same schema. CREATE TABLE also automatically creates a data type that represents the composite type corresponding to one row of the table. Therefore, tables cannot have the same name as any existing data type in the same schema. The optional constraint clauses specify constraints (tests) that new or updated rows must satisfy for an insert or update operation to succeed. A constraint is an SQL object that helps define the set of valid values in the table in various ways. There are two ways to define constraints: table constraints and column constraints. A column constraint is defined as part of a column definition. A table constraint definition is not tied to a particular column, and it can encompass more than one column. Every column constraint can also be written as a table constraint; a column constraint is only a notational convenience for use when the constraint only affects one column. To be able to create a table, you must have USAGE privilege on all column types or the type in the OF clause, respectively. Parameters TEMPORARY or TEMP # If specified, the table is created as a temporary table. Temporary tables are automatically dropped at the end of a session, or optionally at the end of the current transaction (see ON COMMIT below). The default search_path includes the temporary schema first and so identically named existing permanent tables are not chosen for new plans while the temporary table exists, unless they are referenced with schema-qualified names. Any indexes created on a temporary table are automatically temporary as well. The autovacuum daemon cannot access and therefore cannot vacuum or analyze temporary tables. For this reason, appropriate vacuum and analyze operations should be performed via session SQL commands. For example, if a temporary table is going to be used in complex queries, it is wise to run ANALYZE on the temporary table after it is populated. Optionally, GLOBAL or LOCAL can be written before TEMPORARY or TEMP. This presently makes no difference in PostgreSQL and is deprecated; see Compatibility below. UNLOGGED # If specified, the table is created as an unlogged table. Data written to unlogged tables is not written to the write-ahead log (see Chapter 30), which makes them considerably faster than ordinary tables. However, they are not crash-safe: an unlogged table is automatically truncated after a crash or unclean shutdown. The contents of an unlogged table are also not replicated to standby servers. Any indexes created on an unlogged table are automatically unlogged as well. If this is specified, any sequences created together with the unlogged table (for identity or serial columns) are also created as unlogged. IF NOT EXISTS # Do not throw an error if a relation with the same name already exists. A notice is issued in this case. Note that there is no guarantee that the existing relation is anything like the one that would have been created. table_name # The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table to be created. OF type_name # Creates a typed table, which takes its structure from the specified composite type (name optionally schema-qualified). A typed table is tied to its type; for example the table will be dropped if the type is dropped (with DROP TYPE ... CASCADE). When a typed table is created, then the data types of the columns are determined by the underlying composite type and are not specified by the CREATE TABLE command. But the CREATE TABLE command can add defaults and constraints to the table and can specify storage parameters. column_name # The name of a column to be created in the new table. data_type # The data type of the column. This can include array specifiers. For more information on the data types supported by PostgreSQL, refer to Chapter 8. COLLATE collation # The COLLATE clause assigns a collation to the column (which must be of a collatable data type). If not specified, the column data type's default collation is used. STORAGE { PLAIN | EXTERNAL | EXTENDED | MAIN | DEFAULT } # This form sets the storage mode for the column. This controls whether this column is held inline or in a secondary TOAST table, and whether the data should be compressed or not. PLAIN must be used for fixed-length values such as integer and is inline, uncompressed. MAIN is for inline, compressible data. EXTERNAL is for external, uncompressed data, and EXTENDED is for external, compressed data. Writing DEFAULT sets the storage mode to the default mode for the column's data type. EXTENDED is the default for most data types that support non-PLAIN storage. Use of EXTERNAL will make substring operations on very large text and bytea values run faster, at the penalty of increased storage space. See Section 73.2 for more information. COMPRESSION compression_method # The COMPRESSION clause sets the compression method for the column. Compression is supported only for variable-width data types, and is used only when the column's storage mode is main or extended. (See ALTER TABLE for information on column storage modes.) Setting this property for a partitioned table has no direct effect, because such tables have no storage of their own, but the configured value will be inherited by newly-created partitions. The supported compression methods are pglz and lz4. (lz4 is available only if --with-lz4 was used when building PostgreSQL.) In addition, compression_method can be default to explicitly specify the default behavior, which is to consult the default_toast_compression setting at the time of data insertion to determine the method to use. INHERITS ( parent_table [, ... ] ) # The optional INHERITS clause specifies a list of tables from which the new table automatically inherits all columns. Parent tables can be plain tables or foreign tables. Use of INHERITS creates a persistent relationship between the new child table and its parent table(s). Schema modifications to the parent(s) normally propagate to children as well, and by default the data of the child table is included in scans of the parent(s). If the same column name exists in more than one parent table, an error is reported unless the data types of the columns match in each of the parent tables. If there is no conflict, then the duplicate columns are merged to form a single column in the new table. If the column name list of the new table contains a column name that is also inherited, the data type must likewise match the inherited column(s), and the column definitions are merged into one. If the new table explicitly specifies a default value for the column, this default overrides any defaults from inherited declarations of the column. Otherwise, any parents that specify default values for the column must all specify the same default, or an error will be reported. CHECK constraints are merged in essentially the same way as columns: if multiple parent tables and/or the new table definition contain identically-named CHECK constraints, these constraints must all have the same check expression, or an error will be reported. Constraints having the same name and expression will be merged into one copy. A constraint marked NO INHERIT in a parent will not be considered. Notice that an unnamed CHECK constraint in the new table will never be merged, since a unique name will always be chosen for it. Column STORAGE settings are also copied from parent tables. If a column in the parent table is an identity column, that property is not inherited. A column in the child table can be declared identity column if desired. PARTITION BY { RANGE | LIST | HASH } ( { column_name | ( expression ) } [ opclass ] [, ...] ) # The optional PARTITION BY clause specifies a strategy of partitioning the table. The table thus created is called a partitioned table. The parenthesized list of columns or expressions forms the partition key for the table. When using range or hash partitioning, the partition key can include multiple columns or expressions (up to 32, but this limit can be altered when building PostgreSQL), but for list partitioning, the partition key must consist of a single column or expression. Range and list partitioning require a btree operator class, while hash partitioning requires a hash operator class. If no operator class is specified explicitly, the default operator class of the appropriate type will be used; if no default operator class exists, an error will be raised. When hash partitioning is used, the operator class used must implement support function 2 (see Section 38.16.3 for details). A partitioned table is divided into sub-tables (called partitions), which are created using separate CREATE TABLE commands. The partitioned table is itself empty. A data row inserted into the table is routed to a partition based on the value of columns or expressions in the partition key. If no existing partition matches the values in the new row, an error will be reported. Partitioned tables do not support EXCLUDE constraints; however, you can define these constraints on individual partitions. See Section 5.11 for more discussion on table partitioning. PARTITION OF parent_table { FOR VALUES partition_bound_spec | DEFAULT } # Creates the table as a partition of the specified parent table. The table can be created either as a partition for specific values using FOR VALUES or as a default partition using DEFAULT. Any indexes, constraints and user-defined row-level triggers that exist in the parent table are cloned on the new partition. The partition_bound_spec must correspond to the partitioning method and partition key of the parent table, and must not overlap with any existing partition of that parent. The form with IN is used for list partitioning, the form with FROM and TO is used for range partitioning, and the form with WITH is used for hash partitioning. partition_bound_expr is any variable-free expression (subqueries, window functions, aggregate functions, and set-returning functions are not allowed). Its data type must match the data type of the corresponding partition key column. The expression is evaluated once at table creation time, so it can even contain volatile expressions such as CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. When creating a list partition, NULL can be specified to signify that the partition allows the partition key column to be null. However, there cannot be more than one such list partition for a given parent table. NULL cannot be specified for range partitions. When creating a range partition, the lower bound specified with FROM is an inclusive bound, whereas the upper bound specified with TO is an exclusive bound. That is, the values specified in the FROM list are valid values of the corresponding partition key columns for this partition, whereas those in the TO list are not. Note that this statement must be understood according to the rules of row-wise comparison (Section 9.24.5). For example, given PARTITION BY RANGE (x,y), a partition bound FROM (1, 2) TO (3, 4) allows x=1 with any y=2, x=2 with any non-null y, and x=3 with any y '') ); Create a table with a 2-dimensional array: CREATE TABLE array_int ( vector int[][] ); Define a unique table constraint for the table films. Unique table constraints can be defined on one or more columns of the table: CREATE TABLE films ( code char(5), title varchar(40), did integer, date_prod date, kind varchar(10), len interval hour to minute, CONSTRAINT production UNIQUE(date_prod) ); Define a check column constraint: CREATE TABLE distributors ( did integer CHECK (did 100), name varchar(40) ); Define a check table constraint: CREATE TABLE distributors ( did integer, name varchar(40), CONSTRAINT con1 CHECK (did 100 AND name '') ); Define a primary key table constraint for the table films: CREATE TABLE films ( code char(5), title varchar(40), did integer, date_prod date, kind varchar(10), len interval hour to minute, CONSTRAINT code_title PRIMARY KEY(code,title) ); Define a primary key constraint for table distributors. The following two examples are equivalent, the first using the table constraint syntax, the second the column constraint syntax: CREATE TABLE distributors ( did integer, name varchar(40), PRIMARY KEY(did) ); CREATE TABLE distributors ( did integer PRIMARY KEY, name varchar(40) ); Assign a literal constant default value for the column name, arrange for the default value of column did to be generated by selecting the next value of a sequence object, and make the default value of modtime be the time at which the row is inserted: CREATE TABLE distributors ( name varchar(40) DEFAULT 'Luso Films', did integer DEFAULT nextval('distributors_serial'), modtime timestamp DEFAULT current_timestamp ); Define two NOT NULL column constraints on the table distributors, one of which is explicitly given a name: CREATE TABLE distributors ( did integer CONSTRAINT no_null NOT NULL, name varchar(40) NOT NULL ); Define a unique constraint for the name column: CREATE TABLE distributors ( did integer, name varchar(40) UNIQUE ); The same, specified as a table constraint: CREATE TABLE distributors ( did integer, name varchar(40), UNIQUE(name) ); Create the same table, specifying 70% fill factor for both the table and its unique index: CREATE TABLE distributors ( did integer, name varchar(40), UNIQUE(name) WITH (fillfactor=70) ) WITH (fillfactor=70); Create table circles with an exclusion constraint that prevents any two circles from overlapping: CREATE TABLE circles ( c circle, EXCLUDE USING gist (c WITH &&) ); Create table cinemas in tablespace diskvol1: CREATE TABLE cinemas ( id serial, name text, location text ) TABLESPACE diskvol1; Create a composite type and a typed table: CREATE TYPE employee_type AS (name text, salary numeric); CREATE TABLE employees OF employee_type ( PRIMARY KEY (name), salary WITH OPTIONS DEFAULT 1000 ); Create a range partitioned table: CREATE TABLE measurement ( logdate date not null, peaktemp int, unitsales int ) PARTITION BY RANGE (logdate); Create a range partitioned table with multiple columns in the partition key: CREATE TABLE measurement_year_month ( logdate date not null, peaktemp int, unitsales int ) PARTITION BY RANGE (EXTRACT(YEAR FROM logdate), EXTRACT(MONTH FROM logdate)); Create a list partitioned table: CREATE TABLE cities ( city_id bigserial not null, name text not null, population bigint ) PARTITION BY LIST (left(lower(name), 1)); Create a hash partitioned table: CREATE TABLE orders ( order_id bigint not null, cust_id bigint not null, status text ) PARTITION BY HASH (order_id); Create partition of a range partitioned table: CREATE TABLE measurement_y2016m07 PARTITION OF measurement ( unitsales DEFAULT 0 ) FOR VALUES FROM ('2016-07-01') TO ('2016-08-01'); Create a few partitions of a range partitioned table with multiple columns in the partition key: CREATE TABLE measurement_ym_older PARTITION OF measurement_year_month FOR VALUES FROM (MINVALUE, MINVALUE) TO (2016, 11); CREATE TABLE measurement_ym_y2016m11 PARTITION OF measurement_year_month FOR VALUES FROM (2016, 11) TO (2016, 12); CREATE TABLE measurement_ym_y2016m12 PARTITION OF measurement_year_month FOR VALUES FROM (2016, 12) TO (2017, 01); CREATE TABLE measurement_ym_y2017m01 PARTITION OF measurement_year_month FOR VALUES FROM (2017, 01) TO (2017, 02); Create partition of a list partitioned table: CREATE TABLE cities_ab PARTITION OF cities ( CONSTRAINT city_id_nonzero CHECK (city_id != 0) ) FOR VALUES IN ('a', 'b'); Create partition of a list partitioned table that is itself further partitioned and then add a partition to it: CREATE TABLE cities_ab PARTITION OF cities ( CONSTRAINT city_id_nonzero CHECK (city_id != 0) ) FOR VALUES IN ('a', 'b') PARTITION BY RANGE (population); CREATE TABLE cities_ab_10000_to_100000 PARTITION OF cities_ab FOR VALUES FROM (10000) TO (100000); Create partitions of a hash partitioned table: CREATE TABLE orders_p1 PARTITION OF orders FOR VALUES WITH (MODULUS 4, REMAINDER 0); CREATE TABLE orders_p2 PARTITION OF orders FOR VALUES WITH (MODULUS 4, REMAINDER 1); CREATE TABLE orders_p3 PARTITION OF orders FOR VALUES WITH (MODULUS 4, REMAINDER 2); CREATE TABLE orders_p4 PARTITION OF orders FOR VALUES WITH (MODULUS 4, REMAINDER 3); Create a default partition: CREATE TABLE cities_partdef PARTITION OF cities DEFAULT; Compatibility The CREATE TABLE command conforms to the SQL standard, with exceptions listed below. Temporary Tables Although the syntax of CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE resembles that of the SQL standard, the effect is not the same. In the standard, temporary tables are defined just once and automatically exist (starting with empty contents) in every session that needs them. PostgreSQL instead requires each session to issue its own CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE command for each temporary table to be used. This allows different sessions to use the same temporary table name for different purposes, whereas the standard's approach constrains all instances of a given temporary table name to have the same table structure. The standard's definition of the behavior of temporary tables is widely ignored. PostgreSQL's behavior on this point is similar to that of several other SQL databases. The SQL standard also distinguishes between global and local temporary tables, where a local temporary table has a separate set of contents for each SQL module within each session, though its definition is still shared across sessions. Since PostgreSQL does not support SQL modules, this distinction is not relevant in PostgreSQL. For compatibility's sake, PostgreSQL will accept the GLOBAL and LOCAL keywords in a temporary table declaration, but they currently have no effect. Use of these keywords is discouraged, since future versions of PostgreSQL might adopt a more standard-compliant interpretation of their meaning. The ON COMMIT clause for temporary tables also resembles the SQL standard, but has some differences. If the ON COMMIT clause is omitted, SQL specifies that the default behavior is ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS. However, the default behavior in PostgreSQL is ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS. The ON COMMIT DROP option does not exist in SQL. Non-Deferred Uniqueness Constraints When a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint is not deferrable, PostgreSQL checks for uniqueness immediately whenever a row is inserted or modified. The SQL standard says that uniqueness should be enforced only at the end of the statement; this makes a difference when, for example, a single command updates multiple key values. To obtain standard-compliant behavior, declare the constraint as DEFERRABLE but not deferred (i.e., INITIALLY IMMEDIATE). Be aware that this can be significantly slower than immediate uniqueness checking. Column Check Constraints The SQL standard says that CHECK column constraints can only refer to the column they apply to; only CHECK table constraints can refer to multiple columns. PostgreSQL does not enforce this restriction; it treats column and table check constraints alike. EXCLUDE Constraint The EXCLUDE constraint type is a PostgreSQL extension. Foreign Key Constraints The ability to specify column lists in the foreign key actions SET DEFAULT and SET NULL is a PostgreSQL extension. It is a PostgreSQL extension that a foreign key constraint may reference columns of a unique index instead of columns of a primary key or unique constraint. NULL “Constraint” The NULL “constraint” (actually a non-constraint) is a PostgreSQL extension to the SQL standard that is included for compatibility with some other database systems (and for symmetry with the NOT NULL constraint). Since it is the default for any column, its presence is simply noise. Constraint Naming The SQL standard says that table and domain constraints must have names that are unique across the schema containing the table or domain. PostgreSQL is laxer: it only requires constraint names to be unique across the constraints attached to a particular table or domain. However, this extra freedom does not exist for index-based constraints (UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY, and EXCLUDE constraints), because the associated index is named the same as the constraint, and index names must be unique across all relations within the same schema. Currently, PostgreSQL does not record names for NOT NULL constraints at all, so they are not subject to the uniqueness restriction. This might change in a future release. Inheritance Multiple inheritance via the INHERITS clause is a PostgreSQL language extension. SQL:1999 and later define single inheritance using a different syntax and different semantics. SQL:1999-style inheritance is not yet supported by PostgreSQL. Zero-Column Tables PostgreSQL allows a table of no columns to be created (for example, CREATE TABLE foo();). This is an extension from the SQL standard, which does not allow zero-column tables. Zero-column tables are not in themselves very useful, but disallowing them creates odd special cases for ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN, so it seems cleaner to ignore this spec restriction. Multiple Identity Columns PostgreSQL allows a table to have more than one identity column. The standard specifies that a table can have at most one identity column. This is relaxed mainly to give more flexibility for doing schema changes or migrations. Note that the INSERT command supports only one override clause that applies to the entire statement, so having multiple identity columns with different behaviors is not well supported. Generated Columns The option STORED is not standard but is also used by other SQL implementations. The SQL standard does not specify the storage of generated columns. LIKE Clause While a LIKE clause exists in the SQL standard, many of the options that PostgreSQL accepts for it are not in the standard, and some of the standard's options are not implemented by PostgreSQL. WITH Clause The WITH clause is a PostgreSQL extension; storage parameters are not in the standard. Tablespaces The PostgreSQL concept of tablespaces is not part of the standard. Hence, the clauses TABLESPACE and USING INDEX TABLESPACE are extensions. Typed Tables Typed tables implement a subset of the SQL standard. According to the standard, a typed table has columns corresponding to the underlying composite type as well as one other column that is the “self-referencing column”. PostgreSQL does not support self-referencing columns explicitly. PARTITION BY Clause The PARTITION BY clause is a PostgreSQL extension. PARTITION OF Clause The PARTITION OF clause is a PostgreSQL extension. 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