// Hacker Noon · 13 March 2026

A Practical Guide to Table Partitioning in PostgreSQL

As PostgreSQL tables grow into hundreds of millions of rows, query performance can suffer even with strong indexing. Table partitioning solves this by splitting a logical table into smaller physical partitions that PostgreSQL can scan selectively through partition pruning. This guide explains the th...

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