Has your table become too large to handle? Have you thought about chopping it up into smaller pieces that are easier to query and maintain? What if it's in constant use?

An introduction to the problems that can arise and how PostgreSQL's partitioning features can help, followed by a real-world scenario of partitioning an existing huge table on a live system.

Talk from Postgres Vision 2021. Slides: https://vyruss.org/computing/slides/p...

0:00 Introduction
0:53 What is partitioning?
1:49 Partitioning in PostgreSQL
3:08 Declarative Partitioning
5:06 PostgreSQL limits
6:51 What partitioning can help with
10:48 What partitioning is not
12:03 Dimensioning
14:42 Partitioning method
16:45 Partition Key selection
19:35 Sub-partitioning
21:22 Partitioning by multiple columns
23:03 What Postgres does not do
24:21 Partitioning a live production system
25:11 The situation
26:21 Hidden performance pitfall
30:50 The plan
32:32 Create empty partitioned table & indices
32:48 Create partition for new incoming data
33:08 Attach old table as a partition
39:28 To conclude...