Re: [GENERAL] splitting tables into db's

From: Elmar(dot)Haneke(at)gmx(dot)de
To: pgsql-general(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] splitting tables into db's
Date: 2000-02-16 08:56:09
Message-ID: 2275C92BE7@haneke.de
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> If there are too many requests for a particular database, is there a way
> for postgresql to do load balancing across multiple servers? As far as I
> can see, the only way would be to split the tables within the database
> into distinct databases. Of course, this would assume there are no
> dependencies between each database. This can obviously cause a problem, so
> are there any recommended ways to have a form of load balancing with
> postgresql?

There is no build-in load balancing in PostgreSQL.

As an alternative I would use an database-mirror.
For read-Queries the application can use any of the servers.
For Updates the application has to send them to all servers.

Elmar

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