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Re:Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postg... by jl6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:35AM (#48843261)
"Is 50% faster than Postgres on transaction workloads" - That is a very big claim! 50% faster on everything? Is it a strict improvement across the board or are there tradeoffs that make some workloads slower?
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Re:Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postg... by malisper on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:43AM (#48843325)
The 50% is specifically on percona-tpcc[0]. I got there through a mix of batching (postgres processes a row at a time), prefetching, and several handful of other optimizations.

  [0] https://github.com/Percona-Lab/sysbench-tpcc
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