Re: Horizontal scalability/sharding

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Mason S <masonlists(at)gmail(dot)com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Horizontal scalability/sharding
Date: 2015-09-01 21:53:47
Message-ID: 20150901215347.GA27332@momjian.us
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 08:18:38AM -0700, Joshua Drake wrote:
> On 09/01/2015 02:48 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 09:30:41AM +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
>
> >There is no question that using XC/XL will get us to a usable solution
> >faster, but see my recent post to Josh Berkus --- the additional code
> >will be so burdensome that I doubt it would be accepted. If it was, I
> >bet we would have considered it long ago.
> >
> >I think the only way we are going to get sharding into Postgres is to do
> >it in a way that enhances existing Postgres capabilities.
>
> So that we have XL again?

Kind of. If XC/XL used FDWs I think we would try to use their code
first. The issue is that FDWs didn't exist at the time. I would say
our first approach might be doing XC/XL again with FDWs.

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