Listen "Getting started with benchmarking"
Episode Synopsis
Michael and Nikolay are joined by Melanie Plageman, database internals engineer at Microsoft and major contributor and committer to PostgreSQL, to discuss getting started with benchmarking — how it differs for users and developers of Postgres, how and when it comes up during development, some tools and lessons, as well as what she's working on at the moment. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Melanie Plageman https://postgres.fm/people/melanie-plagemanMeanie’s Introduction to Benchmarking With pgbench talk slides https://postgresql.us/events/pgconfnyc2023/schedule/session/1410-introduction-to-benchmarking-with-pgbench/#slidesMelanie’s Visualizing Postgres I/O Performance for Development talk recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxyPZHG5beIMelanie’s Visualizing Postgres I/O Performance for Development talk slides https://speakerdeck.com/melanieplageman/o-performance-for-developmentpgbench https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgbench.htmlMark Callaghan’s blog https://smalldatum.blogspot.comSome of Tomas Vondra’s blog posts https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/author/tomas-vondraSome of Andres Freund’s blog posts https://www.citusdata.com/blog/authors/andres-freund/An example of Alexander Lakhin’s work https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b32bed1b-0746-9b20-1472-4bdc9ca66d52%40gmail.comSimplifying the TPC Benchmark C, an OLTP Workload (talk by Mark Wong) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi0I74urLoYMatplotlib https://matplotlib.orgpandas https://pandas.pydata.orgpg_stat_io https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-IO-VIEWpg_stat_io commit https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=a9c70b46dbe152e094f137f7e6ba9cd3a638ee25 pg_buffercache https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgbuffercache.htmltmpfs https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/tmpfs.htmlEager page freeze criteria mailing list thread https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_b3tpbdRPUPh1Q5h35gXhY%3DspH2ssNsEsJ9sDfw6%3DPEAg%40mail.gmail.comThe path to using AIO in postgres (talk by Andres Freund) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX50xrHwQa4Improve dead tuple storage for lazy vacuum (Masahiko Sawada) https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAD21AoAfOZvmfR0j8VmZorZjL7RhTiQdVttNuC4W-Shdc2a-AA@mail.gmail.com~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is produced by:Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustardNikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork
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