Haas: Built-in Sharding for PostgreSQL

[Posted May 17, 2018 by corbet]

Robert Haas writes about the sharding capabilities that PostgreSQL will someday have. "The capabilities already added are independently useful, but I believe that some time in the next few years we're going to reach a tipping point. Indeed, I think in a certain sense we already have. Just a few years ago, there was serious debate about whether PostgreSQL would ever have built-in sharding. Today, the question is about exactly which features are still needed."