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From Scott Ribe
Subject Re: List Based Table Partitioning on non-Primary Key Columns
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Msg-id A2497CED-0CF2-4DF8-B041-8E4793A884E8@elevated-dev.com
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In response to List Based Table Partitioning on non-Primary Key Columns  (Amit Sharma <amitpgsql@gmail.com>)
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> On Oct 16, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Amit Sharma <amitpgsql@gmail.com> wrote:
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> My question is, is there any downside of using a similar partition option in PostgreSQL from performance or
manageabilityperspective? Has anyone dealt with a similar type of partition issues? Is there any other alternate option
weshould be using? 

It's not unreasonable. But an alternative is to have a set, fewer, number of partitions and hash partition. You could
windup with better balanced partitions, and the cost of on average larger partitions.

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