Postgres Sorting at Scale Needs More Than ORDER BY

A skewed partition key in PostgreSQL can lead to write bottlenecks by disproportionately directing 80% of writes to a single partition, causing performance issues. The article discusses methods to diagnose these partition hot spots and offers strategies for fixing them at the schema level, emphasizing the importance of well-balanced partitioning to maintain optimal database performance.

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