PgDog funding and transparent Postgres sharding

Category: Pulse
Status: discussion
Sources: HN discussion 437 points 216 comments, PgDog funding post
Summary: PgDog, a connection pooler and proxy that shards Postgres at the wire-protocol layer without application changes or extensions, announced funding. Practitioners discussed cross-shard query handling, failover, and how it compares to Citus and application-level sharding.