Last week at the CHAR(10) conference we had a workshop on "Cloud Databases". To put it simply: what to do when the use case requirements exceed the resources available in the database server.
This was a main topic of the whole conference, and several solutions have been illustrated during the day. A common theme has been that no solution fits all the use cases, and that each solution comes with its cost; hence you have to choose the solution that your use case can afford.
Continue reading Some ideas about low-level resource pooling in PostgreSQL.
