On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What you are describing is an edge case for the notion of "sharding"
> which is the deployment of identically structured DBs where different
> batches of users get saved in different databases. (Flickr does this.)

You could also move the sharding from the application to the db. MySQL
has MySQL Proxy <http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy> which HSCALE
<http://hscale.org/display/HSCALE/Home> uses. Not sure about other
DBs. This way Django would just keep working as is.

Ben.

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