Umair Shahid continues a series on migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL:
Table partitioning is a database design technique that divides a large table into smaller, more manageable sub-tables called partitions. Each partition holds a subset of the data based on specific criteria, such as date ranges, categories, or hash values. While partitioning makes it seem like you’re working with a single large table, behind the scenes, queries and operations are distributed across multiple partitions.
Read on to understand the differences between the two platforms. In this case, there are some pretty significant differences.