Four million TPS
Nikolay talks Michael through a recent experiment to find the current maximum transactions per second single-node Postgres can achieve — why he was looking into it, what bottlenecks occurred along the way, and ideas for follow up experiments.
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
- How many TPS can we get from a single Postgres node? (Article by Nikolay) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-many-tps-can-we-get-from-single-postgres-node-nikolay-samokhvalov-yu0rc
- Chat history with Postgres AI bot https://postgres.ai/chats/01905a83-4573-7dca-b47a-bb60ce30fe6c
- Our episode on the overhead of pg_stat_statements and pg_stat_kcache https://postgres.fm/episodes/overhead-of-pg_stat_statements-and-pg_stat_kcache
- PostgreSQL 17 beta 2 is out https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-beta-2-released-2885/
- PostgreSQL and MySQL: Millions of Queries per Second (about the work by Sveta and Alexander) https://www.percona.com/blog/millions-queries-per-second-postgresql-and-mysql-peaceful-battle-at-modern-demanding-workloads
- postgresql_cluster https://github.com/vitabaks/postgresql_cluster
- Track on CPU events for pg_wait_sampling https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling/pull/74
- The year of the Lock Manager’s Revenge (post by Jeremy Schneider) https://ardentperf.com/2024/03/03/postgres-indexes-partitioning-and-lwlocklockmanager-scalability
- Pluggable cumulative statistics (Postgres hackers thread started by Michael Paquier) https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/Zmqm9j5EO0I4W8dx%40paquier.xyz
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What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!
What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!
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Postgres FM is produced by:
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
With special thanks to:
- Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork
