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Draft: Resolve "Add range partitioning helper"

Diogo Frazão requested to merge 423780-add-range-partitioning-helper into master

What does this MR do and why?

In this merge request, we are adding support for range int partition.

partition_table_by_int_range(table_name, column_name, partition_size:, primary_key:)

# Creates a partitioned copy of an existing table, using a RANGE partitioning strategy on a int/bigint column.
# One partition is created per partition_size between 1 and MAX(column_name). Also installs a trigger on
# the original table to copy writes into the partitioned table. To copy over historic data from before creation
# of the partitioned table, use the `enqueue_partitioning_data_migration` helper in a post-deploy migration.
# Note: If the original table is empty the system creates 6 partitions in the new table.
#
# A copy of the original table is required as PG currently does not support partitioning existing tables.
#
# Example:
#
#   partition_table_by_int_range :merge_request_diff_commits, :relative_order, partition_size: 500, primary_key: ['merge_request_diff_id', 'relative_order']
#
# Options are:
#   :partition_size - a int specifying the partition size
#   :primary_key - a array specifying the primary query of the new table
#
# Note: The system always adds a buffer of 6 partitions.

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Related to #423780 (closed)

Edited by Diogo Frazão

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