Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit

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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.