Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding
Date: 2016-03-01 19:02:44
Message-ID: 20160301190244.GA14516@momjian.us
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 07:56:58PM +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> Note that I am not saying that other discussed approaches are any
> better, I am saying that we should know approximately what we
> actually want and not just beat FDWs with a hammer and hope sharding
> will eventually emerge and call that the plan.

I will say it again --- FDWs are the only sharding method I can think of
that has a chance of being accepted into Postgres core. It is a plan,
and if it fails, it fails. If is succeeds, that's good. What more do
you want me to say? I know of no other way to answer the questions you
asked above.

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