Nice writeup. A potential drawback of this is that random access to rows may slow down because of unbalanced b-tree indexes due to the most significant bits being largely the same. It may also have an effect on the distribution of load when sharding big tables across instances.
Tim De Lange
Been around the block.
Nice writeup. A potential drawback of this is that random access to rows may slow down because of unbalanced b-tree indexes due to the most significant bits being largely the same. It may also have an effect on the distribution of load when sharding big tables across instances.