Announcing pg_shard 1.1

Last winter, we open-sourced pg_shard, a transparent sharding extension for PostgreSQL. It brought straightforward sharding capabilities to PostgreSQL, allowing tables and queries to be distributed across any number of servers.

Today we’re excited to announce the next release of pg_shard. The changes in this release include:

• Improved performance — INSERT commands run up to four times faster
• Shard repair — Easily bring inactive placements back up to speed
• Copy script — Quickly import data from CSV and other files from the command line
• CitusDB integration — Expose pg_shard’s metadata for CitusDB’s use
• Resource improvements — Execute larger queries than ever before

For more information about recent changes, you can view all the issues closed during this release cycle on GitHub.

Upgrading or installing is a breeze: see pg_shard’s GitHub page for detailed instructions.

Whether you want a distributed document store alongside your normal PostgreSQL tables or need the extra computational power afforded by a sharded cluster, pg_shard can help. We continue to grow pg_shard’s capabilities and are open to feature requests.

Got questions?

If you have any questions about pg_shard, please contact us using the pg_shard-users mailing list.

If you discover an issue when using pg_shard, please submit it to our issue tracker on GitHub.

Further information is available on our website, where you are free to contact us with any general questions you may have.

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