Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit
partitioningdatabase performancerange partitioningprimary keyautomated partition management
Author: rtolkachev
Date: 7/1/2026
Article Summary:
The article discusses the pitfalls of partitioning by created_at in databases and proposes an alternative approach of using the primary key as the partition key, allowing for automated range partition management and reducing the need for manual partition pruning.