Re: What limits Postgres performance when the whole database lives in cache?

From: 'Bruce Momjian' <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: dandl <david(at)andl(dot)org>
Cc: 'Andres Freund' <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, 'Scott Marlowe' <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, 'pgsql-general' <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What limits Postgres performance when the whole database lives in cache?
Date: 2016-09-03 02:01:28
Message-ID: 20160903020128.GB3838@momjian.us
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On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 10:45:47AM +1000, dandl wrote:
> > Agreed. Stonebraker measured Shore DBMS, which is an academic
> > database:
> >
> > http://research.cs.wisc.edu/shore/
> >
> > If he had measured a production-quality database that had been
> > optimized like Postgres, I would take more stock of his "overhead"
> > numbers.
>
> Exactly! And that's what I'm asking: has anyone done or know of any figures for Postgres, to set against these?

Uh, well, there are Postgres tools that measure the overhead of locking
on queries and stuff. I don't know any numbers myself.

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