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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Scalability tools

Many PostgreSQL users have designed applications that scale naturally by routing database requests based on the client number or a similar natural sharding key. This is what we call manual sharding at the application level.

For PostgreSQL 10 and earlier versions, PostgreSQL does not directly support features for automatic write scalability, such as sharding. This is an active area of work, and much will change in this area, though it may take some time.

Postgres-XL provides automatic hash sharding and is currently the most complete open source implementation that allows automatic write scalability at the database level.

PL/Proxy provides a mature mechanism for database scalability. It was originally designed for Skype, but ...

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