Thank you for the reply. The article is a good one. I posed the question on the chance things had evolved since 2012, specifically as it relates to postgres. > On Aug 10, 2020, at 3:21 PM, Christophe Pettus <xof@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Aug 10, 2020, at 15:19, Mark Phillips <mark.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Advice, cautionary tales, suggestions and such will be warmly received. > > Here's one solution a company found for this; it seems to work very well: > > https://instagram-engineering.com/sharding-ids-at-instagram-1cf5a71e5a5c > > -- > -- Christophe Pettus > xof@xxxxxxxxxxxx >