April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
15h 22m
English
In November 2005, PostgreSQL 8.1 was released. It included a number of internal architectural changes, some of which aimed to improve how fast the database would run on a multiprocessor system with many active clients. The result was a major improvement in the ability of the database to scale upwards to handle a heavy load. Benchmarks on modern hardware really highlight just how far that version leapfrogged earlier ones. You can find an excellent performance comparison of versions 8.0 through 8.4 from György Vilmos at http://suckit.blog.hu/2009/09/29/postgresql_history. This shows exactly how dramatic these improvements have been.
This test gives a transactions per second (TPS) figure that measures ...
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