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		KiranRao0 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PgDog - Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL without ... This project seems amazing. What are the potential downsides? Increased latency when routing? Unpredictable query times (cross shard vs in shard)?

ezekg 10 months ago [–]

Yeah, I posted because it's kind of blowing my mind. I was literally wondering this morning why this hasn't been tried -- essentially a pg load balancer, then stumbled across this.

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