diff --git a/regress/expected/expr.out b/regress/expected/expr.out
index 806a6f65c..6299ce9e5 100644
--- a/regress/expected/expr.out
+++ b/regress/expected/expr.out
@@ -4903,9 +4903,9 @@ $$) AS (results agtype);
 SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
     RETURN split("a,b,c,d,e,f", "")
 $$) AS (results agtype);
-                         results                         
----------------------------------------------------------
- ["a", ",", "b", ",", "c", ",", "d", ",", "e", ",", "f"]
+     results     
+-----------------
+ ["a,b,c,d,e,f"]
 (1 row)
 
 SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
@@ -5014,6 +5014,57 @@ ERROR:  function age_split() does not exist
 LINE 1: SELECT * FROM age_split();
                       ^
 HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts.
+-- regex metacharacters should be treated as literal delimiters (#2568)
+SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
+    RETURN split("a.b.c", ".")
+$$) AS (results agtype);
+     results     
+-----------------
+ ["a", "b", "c"]
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
+    RETURN split("a|b|c", "|")
+$$) AS (results agtype);
+     results     
+-----------------
+ ["a", "b", "c"]
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
+    RETURN split("a+b+c", "+")
+$$) AS (results agtype);
+     results     
+-----------------
+ ["a", "b", "c"]
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
+    RETURN split("a.b.c.d", ".")
+$$) AS (results agtype);
+       results        
+----------------------
+ ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT * FROM age_split('a.b.c', '.');
+    age_split    
+-----------------
+ ["a", "b", "c"]
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT * FROM age_split('a|b|c', '|');
+    age_split    
+-----------------
+ ["a", "b", "c"]
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT * FROM age_split('a+b+c', '+');
+    age_split    
+-----------------
+ ["a", "b", "c"]
+(1 row)
+
 --
 -- replace()
 --
diff --git a/regress/sql/expr.sql b/regress/sql/expr.sql
index d4d900a1c..3f382119f 100644
--- a/regress/sql/expr.sql
+++ b/regress/sql/expr.sql
@@ -2098,6 +2098,22 @@ SELECT * FROM age_split(123456789, ',');
 SELECT * FROM age_split('a,b,c,d,e,f', -1);
 SELECT * FROM age_split('a,b,c,d,e,f');
 SELECT * FROM age_split();
+-- regex metacharacters should be treated as literal delimiters (#2568)
+SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
+    RETURN split("a.b.c", ".")
+$$) AS (results agtype);
+SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
+    RETURN split("a|b|c", "|")
+$$) AS (results agtype);
+SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
+    RETURN split("a+b+c", "+")
+$$) AS (results agtype);
+SELECT * FROM cypher('expr', $$
+    RETURN split("a.b.c.d", ".")
+$$) AS (results agtype);
+SELECT * FROM age_split('a.b.c', '.');
+SELECT * FROM age_split('a|b|c', '|');
+SELECT * FROM age_split('a+b+c', '+');
 
 --
 -- replace()
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/agtype.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/agtype.c
index cc9cc7717..8de018a6b 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/agtype.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/agtype.c
@@ -9480,8 +9480,13 @@ Datum age_split(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
     /*
      * We need the strings as a text strings so that we can let PG deal with
      * multibyte characters in the string. The result is an ArrayType
+     *
+     * Use text_to_array (SQL string_to_array, literal split) instead of regexp_split_to_array
+     * so that the delimiter is treated as a plain string, not a regular
+     * expression.  This matches openCypher semantics and is consistent with
+     * age_replace(), which already treats the delimiter literally.
      */
-    text_array = DirectFunctionCall2Coll(regexp_split_to_array,
+    text_array = DirectFunctionCall2Coll(text_to_array,
                                          DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID,
                                          PointerGetDatum(text_string),
                                          PointerGetDatum(text_delimiter));