Merge pull request #188633 from jonels-msft/hsc-dist-terminology

Change misleading term partitioned to distributed

Author: PRMerger6

articles/postgresql/hyperscale/concepts-choose-distribution-column.md

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ store.
 
 #### Best practices
 
--   **Partition distributed tables by a common tenant\_id column.** For
+-   **Distribute tables by a common tenant\_id column.** For
     instance, in a SaaS application where tenants are companies, the
     tenant\_id is likely to be the company\_id.
 -   **Convert small cross-tenant tables to reference tables.** When

articles/postgresql/hyperscale/reference-metadata.md

@@ -237,11 +237,11 @@ colocationid                |
 ### Colocation group table
 
 The pg\_dist\_colocation table contains information about which tables\' shards
-should be placed together, or [colocated](concepts-colocation.md).
-When two tables are in the same colocation group, Hyperscale (Citus) ensures
-shards with the same partition values will be placed on the same worker nodes.
-Colocation enables join optimizations, certain distributed rollups, and foreign key
-support. Shard colocation is inferred when the shard counts, replication
+should be placed together, or [colocated](concepts-colocation.md).  When two
+tables are in the same colocation group, Hyperscale (Citus) ensures shards with
+the same distribution column values will be placed on the same worker nodes.
+Colocation enables join optimizations, certain distributed rollups, and foreign
+key support. Shard colocation is inferred when the shard counts, replication
 factors, and partition column types all match between two tables; however, a
 custom colocation group may be specified when creating a distributed table, if
 so desired.

articles/postgresql/hyperscale/reference-parameters.md

@@ -143,11 +143,11 @@ failures on a more frequent basis.
 
 #### citus.shard\_count (integer)
 
-Sets the shard count for hash-partitioned tables and defaults to 32.  This
+Sets the shard count for hash-distributed tables and defaults to 32.  This
 value is used by the
-[create_distributed_table](reference-functions.md#create_distributed_table)
-UDF when creating hash-partitioned tables. This parameter can be set at
-run-time and is effective on the coordinator.
+[create_distributed_table](reference-functions.md#create_distributed_table) UDF
+when creating hash-distributed tables. This parameter can be set at run-time
+and is effective on the coordinator.
 
 #### citus.shard\_max\_size (integer)