| From: | Elmar(dot)Haneke(at)gmx(dot)de |
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| 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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