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A comment on SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL. Parent comment

Re:SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scal... by thelastparadise on Monday March 25, 2024 @11:25AM (#39817498)
For bursty load why not restart a slave node on a bigger vm, promote said slave to master?

Repeat with bigger and bigger nides as needed. To scale down, do the inverse.

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Re:SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scal... by hot_gril on Monday March 25, 2024 @05:20PM (#39821396)
Wouldn't there be a significant hit to availability or latency during the master promotion?
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