pg_shard 1.1 Extension for Scaling Out PG is Released

pg_shard 1.1, an open source extension for scaling out PostgreSQL across a
cluster of commodity servers, has been released by Citus Data. pg_shard can
support a database with hundreds of billions of events while creating a
highly available database cluster.

Changes in this release include:

* Improved performace - INSERT commands run up to four times faster

* Shard repair - Easily bring inactive placements back up to speed

* Copy script - Quickly import data from CSV and other files from the
command line

* CitusDB integration - Expose pg_shard's metadata for CitusDB's use

* Resource improvements - Execute larger queries than ever before

For more information about recent changes, you can view
<https://github.com/citusdata/pg_shard/issues?q=is:closed+sort:updated-desc+
-label:invalid++milestone:v1.1> all the issues closed during this release
cycle on GitHub.

Further information on cstore_fdw can be found on the Citus Data website at
https://www.citusdata.com/citus-products/pg-shard.

pg_shard can be downloaded from GitHub at
https://github.com/citusdata/pg_shard.

If you have questions about pg_shard, please contact Citus Data using the
pg_shard Google group at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pg_shard-users.

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Terry Erisman

https://www.citusdata.com

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