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This is not a big database usecase. It just needs one to not do silly things like opening a new database session for every query when it's well documented that this is expensive.

pgbouncer added support for prepared statements a couple years back.

Over here we use a PKI cert for that. A smartcard providing the root of that trust is provided by the government after verifying your identity using the typical stuff used for iden…

What you are describing here does not match how postgres works. A read on the replica does not generate temporary tables, nor can anything on the replica create locks on the primar…

There is no backpressure from replication and streaming replication is asynchronous by default. Replicas can ask the primary to hold back garbage collection (off by default), which…

These are limitations in the current PostgreSQL implementation. It's quite possible to have consistent commits and snapshots across sharded databases. Hopefully some day in Postgre…

Postgres setups are typically based on physical replication, which is not an option on MySQL. My testing shows the limit to be about 177k tps with each transaction consisting of 3 …

For updating a single resource where the order of updates matters the best throughput one can hope for is the inverse of locking duration. Typical postgres using applications follo…

I'm wondering if it would make sense to integrate the rim, motor and wheel bearing into a single assembly to save weight and cost. That combined with the weight and packaging benef…

In that snippet are links to Postgres docs and two blog posts, one being the blog post under discussion. None of those contain the information needed to make the presented claims a…

Triggers are not even particularly slow. They just hide the extra work that is being done and thus sometimes come back to bite programmers by adding a ton of work to statements tha…

So my display aspect ratio is 2.5dB. Or is it 5dB because it's not measuring power?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-dhwSpjOw

That thread is indeed about the same issue. I don't think anyone has done a more concise writeup on it. Core of the issue is that on the primary, commit inserts a WAL record, waits…

Interesting why this magic would be needed. Vanilla Postgres does support quorum commit which can do this. You can also set up the equivalent multi-AZ cluster with Patroni, and (mo…

Yes and no. On the primary durability order and visibility order are different. So an async transaction that starts committing later can become visible to readers before a sync tra…

There is a paper exploring this concept: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~kdaudjee/ED.pdf UI wise it does not make sense to have this distinction, as the window to get durability is a smal…

Consumers already have the choice of not buying the most powerful card. Increasing die size to run cores in a more power efficient regime is not going to work, because a) the chips…

LLMs are not a great source for this type of information. This mess in no way articulated in what way savepoints and transactions are different. Savepoints are fully equivalent to …

Not disagreeing, but for more context. These blog posts also have to be taken with a grain of salt as the authors obviously have their own project to promote, coloring their point …

Javas problem is a culture of overly generic solutions (vendor neutral!) that then try to fix architectural performance issues by liberally adding caching. This makes both the star…

No, and it feels unlikely that they will either.

For RDBMS we typically consider millions to be tiny to small. A billion is somewhere on the boundary of medium to big.

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