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:

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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