The final important aspect of database sharding that we are going to explore in this chapter is reorganization. The purpose of allocating a large number of logical shards is to prepare for future expansion. If we started with 2,048 shards, all of which are currently mapped to a single server, we will eventually want to move some of them elsewhere.
The easiest way to do this is to leverage PostgreSQL replication. Essentially, we will create a streaming replica for the server that we want to split and drop the schemas that we don't need on each server. Consider a database with two shards. Our end goal is to produce something like the following:
On each server, we simply drop the schema indicated by the dashed box. This way, we still have two shards, and only the location of myapp2 has changed—its data remains unharmed.
This recipe will...
