PL/Proxy is a database partitioning system that is implemented as a PL language. PL/Proxy makes it straightforward to split large independent tables among multiple nodes in a way that almost allows unbounded scalability. PL/Proxy scaling works on both read and write workloads. The main idea is that the proxy function will be set up with the same signature as the remote function to be called, so only the destination information needs be specified inside the proxy function body.
In this recipe, we are going to show the steps required to install PL/Proxy.
The following are the steps to install PL/Proxy:
Go to the following website and download the latest tarball of PL/Proxy: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/plproxy/.
Once the latest version of PL/Proxy is downloaded, then the next step is to unpack the TAR archive:
tar xvfz plproxy-2.5.tar.gz
Once the TAR archive has been unpacked, the next step is to enter the newly created directory and start the...