Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding
Date: 2016-03-01 15:37:42
Message-ID: 20160301153742.GA5820@momjian.us
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:19:45AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Two reasons:
> > 1. There is no ideal implementation of DTM which will fit all possible needs
> > and be efficient for all clusters.
>
> Hmm, what is the reasoning behind that statement? I mean, it is
> certainly true that there are some places where we have decided that
> one-size-fits-all is not the right approach. Indexing, for example.

Uh, is that even true of indexing? While the plug-in nature of indexing
allows for easier development and testing, does anyone create plug-in
indexing that isn't shipped by us? I thought WAL support was something
that prevented external indexing solutions from working.

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