Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding

On Tue, Mar  1, 2016 at 07:56:58PM +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> Note that I am not saying that other discussed approaches are any
> better, I am saying that we should know approximately what we
> actually want and not just beat FDWs with a hammer and hope sharding
> will eventually emerge and call that the plan.

I will say it again --- FDWs are the only sharding method I can think of
that has a chance of being accepted into Postgres core.  It is a plan,
and if it fails, it fails.  If is succeeds, that's good.  What more do
you want me to say?  I know of no other way to answer the questions you
asked above.

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