Re: horizontal sharding

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: horizontal sharding
Date: 2009-06-27 05:59:24
Message-ID: dcc563d10906262259n72a2e82awacb7ff77a6c44ae7@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:36 AM, John R Pierce<pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
> Jim Mlodgenski wrote:
>>
>>
>>    also is it possible to paritition without changing client code
>>
>> Yes, but it depends on the SQL in your client code. If you are just using
>> simple SQL with no stored functions, you should be able to slip in either
>> solution without changing the client code.
>
> what about queries that need to do joins or aggregate reporting across the
> partitions?!?  I can't see how that could be done transparently short of
> something like Oracle RAC.

You could make something reasonably fast and partitioned with pl/proxy
and views.

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