As we said earlier, building a fully functional API as we discussed here is beyond the scope of this book. However, we have written a reference implementation named Shard Manager, available on GitHub:
https://github.com/OptionsHouse/shard_manager
Shard Manager creates all of the configuration tables and functions that we discussed in this recipe, along with a couple of extras. Further, it operates as a PostgreSQL extension. For example, to create a schema named shard to store the API and configuration tables, we would use these SQL statements:
CREATE SCHEMA shard; CREATE EXTENSION shard_manager WITH SCHEMA shard;
The documentation is currently somewhat sparse, but there is enough to install and use the provided functions, ...
