Can anyone point me to some reading material on how auto-generated sequence primary keys are handled on distributed systems? I think the advice used to be to use GUIDs, but I thought I read somewhere that PostgreSQL now assigns a pool of numbers to each node when a sequence is implemented. I have searched the PostgreSQL 9.1.5 Documentation, but apparently my search terms are not quite what it takes, or dreamt that up.
PostgreSQL itself does not support a distributed architecture. You may be thinking of Postgres-XC?
Sequences are local to each instances and it is not a pool, it is a 64bit allocation for each sequence within the local node, generally constrained only when called from the serial (big serial being 64 bits) type to 32 bits.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
Thank you Joshua.
Yep, if you are correct, and I believe you are, then obviously I was thinking of something else (this happens when you work on multiple systems I'm afraid). That would explain why I was having so much trouble finding something that wasn't there.
This will make our planning a bit easier because I now know what the limits currently are. I will be checking out Postgres-XC as well.
