### Scaling with PostgreSQL 9.6 and Postgres-XL Mason Sharp mason.sharp@gmail.com Huawei ## whoami • Engineer at Huawei (USA based) • Co-organizer of NYC PostgreSQL User Group • PostgreSQL-based PostgreSQL-based database clusters GridSQL • Postgres-XC • Postgres-XL ## Agenda • PostgreSQL 9.6 Scaling Features • Scaling Solutions • Use Cases • Postgres-XL ## BTW- PGConf US 2017 in New York City • Join us cores largely idle - Prior to 9.6, one work-around for this would be to configure a multi-node Postgres-XL “cluster” on the same server, which would utilize the other cores • PostgreSQL 9.6 adds parallel