A high-volume orders table is growing 1TB per year. Queries filtering by date are slow. What do you do?

Range partitioning by date: CREATE TABLE orders (... order_date DATE NOT NULL, ...) PARTITION BY RANGE (order_date). Create monthly partitions: CREATE TABLE orders_2024_01 PARTITION OF orders FOR VALUES FROM ('2024-01-01') TO ('2024-02-01'). Use pg_partman extension for automatic partition management. Result: queries for 'this month' only scan 1/12 of data (partition pruning). Old data: CREATE TAB