On 21/05/20, Karsten Hilbert (Karsten.Hilbert@xxxxxxx) wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 03:35:59PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > We have quite a few databases of type a and many of type b in a cluster. > > Both a and b types are fairly complex and are different solutions to a > > similar problem domain. All the databases are very read-centric, and all > > database interaction is currently through plpgsql with no materialised > > data. > > > > Some organisations have several type a and many type b databases, and > > need to query these in a homogeneous manner. We presently do this with > > many middleware requests or pl/proxy. An a or b type database belongs to > > 0 or 1 organisations. > > Might postgres_fdw help in any way ? Thanks for the suggestion. As I noted we are already using pl/proxy and it works well, although we are soaking up a lot of connections with it. >From my reading of the postgres_fdw docs it is much more featureful than pl/proxy but it is likely to have the same connection characteristics. The main issues we're trying to solve is standardising data access through (I think) materialisation and centralisation. Rory
