Re: Oracle vs PG

e to handle the pressure, slowing down the overall database performance, the report said."
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> Again, pretty much content-free. For all you know some application was creating savepoints, needlessly:
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-savepoint.html
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> and not cleaning up after itself.
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> The content is here:
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> "Following the Prime Day outage, Amazon engineers filled out a 25-page report, which Amazon calls a correction of error. It's a standard process that Amazon uses to try to understand why a major incident took place and how to keep it from happening in the future."
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> Not sure if that is publicly available or not, though my hunch is no.

I think PG gurus in this list can expand on the clue as to what could have gone wrong with savepoints in PG under heavy load.