Re: horizontal sharding - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: horizontal sharding
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Msg-id dcc563d10906262259n72a2e82awacb7ff77a6c44ae7@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: horizontal sharding  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:36 AM, John R Pierce<pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> Jim Mlodgenski wrote:
>>
>>
>>    also is it possible to paritition without changing client code
>>
>> Yes, but it depends on the SQL in your client code. If you are just using
>> simple SQL with no stored functions, you should be able to slip in either
>> solution without changing the client code.
>
> what about queries that need to do joins or aggregate reporting across the
> partitions?!?  I can't see how that could be done transparently short of
> something like Oracle RAC.

You could make something reasonably fast and partitioned with pl/proxy
and views.

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