SMRTR ProgrammingMay 20, 2025DZone

Manual Sharding in PostgreSQL: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide

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Manual sharding in PostgreSQL enables horizontal scalability without third-party extensions. The tutorial demonstrates creating distributed tables using Foreign Data Wrappers, implementing custom routing logic for inserts and reads, and benchmarking performance. This approach offers more control, fewer dependencies, and incremental adoption compared to out-of-the-box sharding solutions.

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