Nikolay and Michael are joined by Lev Kokotov to discuss PgDog — including whether or when sharding is needed, the origin story (via PgCat), what's already supported, and what's coming next.
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
- Lev Kokotov https://postgres.fm/people/lev-kokotov
- PgDog https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
- PgCat https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
- Adopting PgCat (Instacart blog post) https://www.instacart.com/company/how-its-made/adopting-pgcat-a-nextgen-postgres-proxy
- PgDog discussion on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364668
- Citus https://github.com/citusdata/citus
- Sharding & IDs at Instagram (blog post) https://instagram-engineering.com/sharding-ids-at-instagram-1cf5a71e5a5c
- Sharding pgvector (blog post by Lev) https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-pgvector
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Postgres FM is produced by:
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
With special thanks to:
- Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork
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