pg_shard 1.1, an open source extension for scaling out PostgreSQL across a cluster of commodity servers, has been released by Citus Data. pg_shard can support a database with hundreds of billions of events while creating a highly available database cluster.
Changes in this release include:
· Improved performace — INSERT commands run up to four times faster
· Shard repair — Easily bring inactive placements back up to speed
· Copy script — Quickly import data from CSV and other files from the command line
· CitusDB integration — Expose pg_shard’s metadata for CitusDB’s use
· Resource improvements — Execute larger queries than ever before
For more information about recent changes, you can view all the issues closed during this release cycle on GitHub.
Further information on cstore_fdw can be found on the Citus Data website at https://www.citusdata.com/citus-products/pg-shard.
pg_shard can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/citusdata/pg_shard.
If you have questions about pg_shard, please contact Citus Data using the pg_shard Google group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pg_shard-users.
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Terry Erisman
https://www.citusdata.com
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