Re: Fragmentation project

Josh,

On 4/23/07, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Gustavo,
>
> > > Oh, you're talking about distributing partitions across different nodes
> > > and parallelizing queries. No, we don't do that today.
> >
> > Yes.This is the goal. Well, I will try it. I'll send the project
> > reports to this list. Comments will be valuable. Desire me good
> > luck...
>
> You might join/look at the PgPoolII project, which is working on parallel
> query amoung other things.
>

The pgpool is an interesting approach to this, but I think that the
funcionality of inserting a record at a backend which will be
"redirectioned" to other and verifying deadlocks under network demands
in acquiring locks on the referenced records/tables in several hosts.
Then, IMO, this may be implemented inside dbms. How Marko wrote, this
is a non-trivial solution...
Really, It could be improved on pgpool to be a process coordinator,
but will need some changes in backend too.
This is a non trivial implementation, but there are several users
waiting for an effective solution for data distributing in a cluster.
These users actually buy commercial solutions or build themselves one.

Gustavo.