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AI-generatedAutomatic tablet splitting versus manual pre-splitting for range-sharded tables with skewed write distribution
For a range-sharded YSQL table keyed on a monotonically increasing identifier, early write traffic concentrates on a small number of tablet leaders until tablet splitting engages. The design goal is to achieve even write distribution across nodes from table creation without incurring unnecessary per-tablet resource overhead. Two documented approaches address
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