Creating Range Partitions
- Last Updated: April 15, 2026
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- MarkLogic Server
- Version 12.0
- Documentation
Range partitions are based on forest naming conventions. A forest’s partition name prefix and the rest of the forest name are separated by a dash (-). For example, a forest named June-0001 belongs to the June partition.
Note:
It is a best practice to create a default partition (a partition without a range) before creating partitions with ranges. Doing this will allow you to load documents into the default partition before you have finished creating the other partitions. As new partitions with ranges are created, the documents will be automatically moved from the default partition to the partitions with matching ranges.
Warning:
All of the forests in a database configured for tiered storage must be part of a partition.
The two ways to create a range partition are covered in this section.