[harryh]

We have a framework for doing this sort of thing but it's only implemented around certain features so it doesn't provide us a ton of benefit at the moment. Obviously doing work to give us more control like this could be a big win, so we'll probably be doing some of that.

[nkallen]

There is no better time than during an outage to add these features. In my experience, band-aids are better way to resolve an outage than fixing root-causes. Make the problem go away by commenting out code, returning empty result-sets, (or whatever) - and re-balance your partitioned database at some later date.