Partitioning
Nikolay and Michael discuss table partitioning — what it is, why and when it's helpful, and some considerations for your partition key.
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- Partitioning docs
- pg_partman
- Index maintenance episode
- Timescale partitioning
- pg_cron
- Xtreme PostgreSQL (talk by Christophe Pettus)
- Database Antipatterns (also by Christophe, slides 46-49)
- Understanding an outage (blog post by Duffel)
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