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Postgres 10 added support logical replication. It makes horizontal scaling fairly painless.



Until you need to reseed the original master, want to do quick rolling restarts or want any automation in automatic failover. PG has a long way to go. A


Logical replication by default doesn't even handle DDL statements so something as simple as adding a new column requires extra process. Postgres is probably the weakest of all relational databases when it comes to scalability, both vertical and horizontal.




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