Re: Federated Postgresql architecture ?

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Chris Browne" <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Federated Postgresql architecture ?
Date: 2008-06-30 13:34:27
Message-ID: 36e682920806300634y10a34fc1vfa9b18658d8e857b@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> But I want to clarify it's goal - it is not to run "pre-determined
> queries." It is to run "pre-determined complex transactions."

Yes.

> And to make those work in a "federated database" takes huge amount
> of complexity that PL/Proxy simply sidesteps. At the price of
> requiring function-based API. But as the function-based API has
> other advantages even without PL/Proxy, it seems fine tradeoff.

Agreed. PL/Proxy has its own set of advantages.

As usual, it really just depends on the application and its requirements.

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