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PostgreSQL Performance From the Ground Up

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Hardware Basics: Processor<br />

● Rule of Thumb<br />

● At least 2 cores<br />

● More cores, or faster<br />

cores?<br />

● Why<br />

● <strong>PostgreSQL</strong> can only<br />

use a single core per<br />

query. There are no<br />

parallel queries (yet).<br />

● Depends on workload.<br />

● Lots of big queries.<br />

Faster cores<br />

● Lots of little ones.<br />

More cores

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