Re: suggestion about time based partitioning and hibernate

On 7/20/23 10:31, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 6:45 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>> Therefore I suggest to avoid doing
>> that. Either look at some other partitioning scheme that doesn't
>> involve adding columns to the primary key, or disregard partitioning for
>> this table entirely.
> What do you mean by "other partitioning scheme"? There is nothing that
> comes into my mind at the moment.
> The problem is that, unluckily, the table is already greater than 50GB
> in seize and is keep growing, so I guess something has to be done, at
> least for a manainance point of view.
>
> Would a partition by hash on the single column primary key be such a bad idea?

Just do a range partition by the existing PK.

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