Re: horizontal sharding

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:03:07PM -0700, mobiledreamers(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> GOals are to scale our game for 10000 simultaneous connection to db
> right now db crashing at 500 or 1000 sim connections

Consider using pgbouncer to multiplex your database connections.

If that doesn't work, consider hiring one of the PostgreSQL consulting
outfits like Command Prompt, Endpoint, OmniTI, or the one I work for,
PostgreSQL Experts <http://www.pgexperts.com/>

Cheers,
David.
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:07 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:32:15AM -0700, mobiledreamers(at)gmail(dot)com
> > wrote:
> > > Hey guys what is a good way to horizontal shard in postgresql
> >
> > "Sharding" is not really a technical term, so it's not really
> > possible to answer this question meaningfully as posed.
> >
> > What is it that you actually want to accomplish here exactly?
> > What are your goals, and what are your priorities on those goals?
> > What will you trade off to achieve them?
> >
> > > 1. pgpool 2 2. gridsql
> > >
> > > which is a better way to use sharding
> > >
> > > also is it possible to paritition without changing client code
> >
> > Almost certainly not. This would be one of the trade-offs
> > mentioned above.

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