How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14261: partition bound may not be specified when adding this Hash partition?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14261: partition bound may not be specified when adding this Hash partition with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14261: partition bound may not be specified when adding this Hash partition

Reason for the Error ORA-14261: partition bound may not be specified when adding this Hash partition

User specified VALUES LESS THAN clause when adding a partition (via ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION) to a Hash partitioned table which is illegal

How to fix the Error ORA-14261: partition bound may not be specified when adding this Hash partition ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Remove VALUES LESS THAN clause from the description of partition being added