PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook - Third Edition

Getting ready

Luckily, there are only really two manufacturers that produce commodity server-class CPUs. Furthermore, each vendor has a line of CPUs designed specifically for server use. AMD and Intel both provide similar price-to-performance curves, but that's where the comparison ends.

This is an exciting time to purchase a CPU. At the time of writing, AMD Threadripper chips compare quite favorably to Intel Xeon processors, and often provide higher core counts. Unlike previous CPU architecture iterations, choosing a CPU isn't as simple as it once was.

Before going through this recipe, it would be a good idea to visit AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, Intel, and AMD, just to get a basic idea of the landscape. There are a lot of benchmarks that ...