On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
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> If we exclude the issue of needing one or two oddball partitions for +/-
> infinity, I expect that fixed sized partitions would actually cover 80-90%
> of cases.
That would not be true in our case. The data is not at all evenly
distributed over the partitioning key. We would need something more like:
values a, b, and c get their own partitions and everything else goes in
partition d.