Doc: discourage use of partial indexes for poor-man's-partitioning.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 1de4a823f9dea3bdc2dba2fe0b9b90c06cfd6fbb
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2020-02-19T23:52:18Z
Releases: 10.13
Doc: discourage use of partial indexes for poor-man's-partitioning.

Creating a bunch of non-overlapping partial indexes is generally
a bad idea, so add an example saying not to do that.

Back-patch to v10.  Before that, the alternative of using (real)
partitioning wasn't available, so that the tradeoff isn't quite
so clear cut.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKVFrvFY-f7kgwMRMiPLbPYMmgjc8Y2jjUGK_Y0HVcYAmU6ymg@mail.gmail.com

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