Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39EF1337990 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:48:50 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20107-10 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:48:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from marajade.localdomain (vcs5.camavision.com [63.228.164.252]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AD61337B6E for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:48:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.10.84] (unknown [192.168.10.84]) (Authenticated sender: andy) by marajade.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8E8B1428A9; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:48:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4D384B55.2020803@squeakycode.net> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:48:53 -0600 From: Andy Colson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Ringer CC: Lars , mark , "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Migrating to Postgresql and new hardware References: <006601cbb78e$b1c26fe0$15474fa0$@com> <4D378512.3060007@postnewspapers.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4D378512.3060007@postnewspapers.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201101/183 X-Sequence-Number: 41970 On 1/19/2011 6:42 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 01/19/2011 05:09 PM, Lars wrote: >> Thanks for the reply! >> >> >>> As others have mentioned, how are you going to be doing your "shards"? >> Hmm... shards might not have been a good word to describe it. I'll >> paste what I wrote in another reply: >> I used sharding as an expression for partitioning data into several >> databases. > > "sharding" or "shards" is pretty much the standard way that setup is > described. It doesn't come up on the Pg list a lot as most people doing > web-oriented horizontally scaled apps use MySQL or fashionable non-SQL > databases, but it's pretty well known in wider circles. > > -- > Craig Ringer > Or... PG is just so good we've never had to use more than one database server! :-) -Andy