From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding |
Date: | 2016-02-24 14:36:02 |
Message-ID: | 20160224143602.GC12198@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:35:15PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> I have nothing against particular FDW advances. However, it's unclear for
> me that FDW should be the only sharding approach.
> It's unproven that FDW can do work that Postgres XC/XL does. With FDW we
> can have some low-hanging fruits. That's good.
> But it's unclear we can have high-hanging fruits (like data redistribution)
> with FDW approach. And if we can it's unclear that it would be easier than
> with other approaches.
> Just let's don't call this community chosen plan for implementing sharding.
> Until we have full picture we can't select one way and reject others.
>
>
> I already several times pointed, that we need XTM to be able to continue
> development in different directions, since there is no clear winner. Moreover,
> I think there is no fits-all solution and while I agree we need one built-in
> in the core, other approaches should have ability to exists without patching.
Yep. I think much of what we eventually add to core will be either
copied from an existing soltion, which then doesn't need to be
maintained anymore, or used by existing solutions.
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