Tag: pgbench
PostgreSQL: The power of a SINGLE missing index
Index missing? When an index is missing, good performance won’t be kissing a PostgreSQL user looking for efficiency but instead feels like a legacy. To satisfy a DBA’s desire and thirst, let us load some data first. pgbench is the tool of the day but the next listing will explain that anyway: Loading millions of […]
A quick look at PostgreSQL 13 RC1 query performance
If you read this blog post the new PostgreSQL version will be probably already officially released to the public for wider usage…but seems some eager DBA already installed the last week’s Release Candidate 1 and took it for a spin 😉 The “spin” though takes 3 days to run for my scripts, so that’s the […]
The mysterious “backend_flush_after” configuration setting
The above-mentioned PostgreSQL server configuration parameter was introduced already some time ago, in version 9.6, but has been flying under the radar so to say and had not caught my attention previously. Until I recently was pasted (not being on Twitter) a tweet from one of the Postgres core developers Andres Freund, that basically said […]