Use default partitioning function with checkkey enabled

[georgi-lozev]

Does it make sense to set the checkkey property to the default partitioning function to true?

Currently it's undefined which results in balancing to a certain partition even if we don't have a key specified. This in turn leads to partial results in certain search queries.

Do you see any obstacles in changing the default behaviour?

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[hsiliev]

Do we need to adapt the dataflow (and perhaps reduce/map functions) code or we can simply change the default?

[georgi-lozev]

As far as I can see in the dataflow we're not using the default and I don't think we need to change that, except we find really strong arguments to do so.

To me it looks like just changing the default, but ...