On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 9:29 PM Achim Gratz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ole Tange writes: > > I have implemented --demux. > > > > I need help explaining what this is and how to use it. > > > > --demultiplex or --demux splits out a stream of records and give each > > record to a process based on the hash value of a column. > > The database community would call this "sharding".
True. Technically it is even closer to sharding than to demultiplexing. I will rename --demux to --shard. And explain the column is the shard key. At least the DB people might understand that, and others should be able to look that up. Good input. Thanks. /Ole
