Hi , We have a system which stores customers' transactions. There are a total of ~100K customers currently and the list will increase in future but not drastically though(maybe ~50K more or so). The number of transactions per day is ~400million. and we want to persist them in our postgres database for ~5months.
The key transaction table is going to have ~450 Million transactions per day and the data querying/filtering will always happen based on the "transaction date" column. And mostly "JOIN" will be happening on the "CUTSOMER_ID" column along with filters for some scenarios on customer_id columns. Each one day worth of transaction consumes ~130GB of storage space as we verified using the "pg_relation_size" function, for a sample data set. As mentioned, there will be ~100K distinct "customer_id" but the data won't be equally distributed , they will be skewed in nature for e.g. Some of the big customers will hold majority of the transactions (say 20-30% of total transactions) and other are distributed among others, but again not equally. So my question was , in the above scenario should we go for a composite partitioning strategy i.e range/hash (daily range partition by transaction_date and hash subpartition by customer_id)? OR Should we go for simple daily range partitioning on the transaction_date column? OR Range/list composite partitioning (range partition by transaction_date and list subpartition by customer_id)? Thanks and Regards Sud
