Re: Horizontal scalability/sharding

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> My hope is that many FDW improvements will benefit sharding and
> non-sharding workloads, but I bet some improvements are going to be
> sharding-specific.  I would say we are still in the exploratory stage,
> but based on the number of people who care about this feature and want
> to be involved, I think we are off to a very good start.  :-)

Having lots of interested people doesn't help with some problems,
though.  The Citus document says:
And the issue with these four limitations wasn't with foreigndata wrappers. We wrote mongo_fdw and cstore_fdw, and
we'requitehappy with the contract FDWs provide. The problem was thatwe were trying to retrofit an API for something
thatit wasfundamentally not designed to do.
 

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