Initially I had the same thought, as it's much less hassle. Unfortunately, other b-tree indexes in the table(s) then won't benefit from this optimization and co

Initially I had the same thought, as it's much less hassle. Unfortunately, other b-tree indexes in the table(s) then won't benefit from this optimization and continue growing. Also, the technique of dropping old partitions at once doesn't work anymore. So no replacement for partitions.