rmance of query planning and execution can be negatively affected by
    poor design.
   </p><p>
    One of the most critical design decisions will be the column or columns
    by which you partition your data.  Often the best choice will be to
    partition by the column or set of columns which most commonly appear in
    <code class="literal">WHERE</code> clauses of queries being executed on the
    partitioned table.  <code class="literal">WHERE</code> clauses that are compatible
    with the partition b