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sargun on Sept 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pgslice: Postgres partitioning as easy as pie

Can I ask why you decided to partition Postgres like this? It looks like you have time-series data based on the examples, and you wanted quick dropping, am I right?

akane on Sept 21, 2016 [–]

That's correct. It allows us to manage the database size over time for tables where we can archive data after a specific period.

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