diff -r 7a42e74fb22c -r f34855556f4d README.md
--- a/README.md	Mon Feb 12 12:49:48 2018 -0800
+++ b/README.md	Mon Feb 12 13:00:25 2018 -0800
@@ -44,7 +44,12 @@
 for details.
 
 Strongly encouraged:  Promote this table to a Timescale "hypertable".
-See Timescale docs for that.
+See Timescale docs for that, but a quick example to partition
+automatically at weekly boundaries would look something like:
+
+```sql
+SELECT create_hypertable( 'netdata', 'time', chunk_time_interval => 604800000000 );
+```