On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 3:05 PM Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> wrote:
> On 05/02/2023 23:17 CET Richard Brockie <richard.brockie@gmail.com> wrote: > > I maintain a Django webapp that uses postgresql and can create inefficient > queries if I'm not careful. I'm looking for ways to mimic a congested db > server in development to expose these queries.
You can run custom statements with the --file option. Get the statements that Django generates and let pgbench run those to analyze the bottlenecks. Or let pgbench create load for some time (see option --time) while you debug your Django app.
Great - thanks for the suggestion.
> The configuration of postgresql is complicated - is there a simple method by > which I could, for example limit the number of transactions/second to a > certain level by adjusting postgresql.conf?
No. Postgres will execute as fast as possible with the available resources.
