June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 34m
English
Sharding is an overloaded and confusing term and isn’t a capability that’s natively supported in PostgreSQL. Generally, the term means to expand your database beyond a single instance, which can be achieved in several ways.
The term can be confused with table partitioning, which is something different in PostgreSQL that you’ll look at in the next chapter. Let’s look at the “Shard (database architecture)” definition from Wikipedia.[354]
Let’s explore two types of application-level ...
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