Re: Quesion about querying distributed databases
Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: me nefcanto <sn.1361@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-03-05T09:55:01Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Wed, 2025-03-05 at 12:57 +0330, me nefcanto wrote: > Right now this data is in MariaDB, on separate databases (schema) but on one > server. The solution in this situation is to have a cross-database query. > (this is the status quo of our application) > > Now our team has decided to migrate to Postgres. However, we realized that > Postgres does not support cross-database queries. And if we want to do so, > we should use FDW. So, we thought we might as well put databases on separate > servers for scalability if we have to write more code. That's the reason > behind this question. In MySQL, the terms "database" and "schema" are used for the same thing. Not so in PostgreSQL. I think you should migrate the data into different schemas in a single database, pretty much like you had it in MySQL. Then you don't need a foreign data wrapper, and I bet the query can perform as well as it did on MySQL. Yours, Laurenz Albe