On 09/01/2015 10:17 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> Any sharding solution worth bothering with will solve some or all of the >> above by extending our ability to process requests across multiple >> nodes. Any solution which does not is merely an academic curiosity. > > I think the right solution to those problems is to attack them > head-on. Sharding solutions should cater to use cases where using all > the resources of one machine isn't sufficient no matter how > efficiently we do it.
As long as "all the resources" != "just IO", I'm completely on board with that. The reason I raised this is that the initial FDW-based proposals pretty much scale IO and nothing else. pg_shard also currently only scales IO, but they're working on that. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
