In this chapter, we will learn how clever data management can increase uptime even further. We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:
- Identifying horizontal candidates
- Setting up a foreign PostgreSQL server
- Mapping a remote user
- Creating a foreign table
- Using a foreign table in a query
- Optimizing foreign table access
- Transforming foreign tables into local tables
- Creating a scalable nextval replacement
- Building a sharding API
- Talking to the right shard
- Moving a shard to another server
