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by manigandham 2778 days ago
Timescale is just an automatic partitioning extension for Postgres. You can also do it with the native partitioning feature, or pg_partman, or Citus, or other tools.

Partitioning the table is the optimization, so that you skip over data when querying and manage it in smaller parts, but Timescale doesn't do anything about older data and neither do most databases.

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> Timescale is just an automatic partitioning extension for Postgres.

That, and a good PR operation.