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Oct 20, 2026
MTAR T3D Sessions: Understanding PostgreSQL Query Plans and Testing Real Workloads.
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2:14JDHOST
What's
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2:15Hunter O’BrienGUEST
your next one? The next one is either a load or a traffic tester, something to more accurately test, like either a database for either the Postgres comp settings or a database for certain queries, how they're going to react under load, certain table additions that people are using.
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2:41Hunter O’BrienGUEST
There's no real way And there is, but there's nothing substantial out there right now, I think, to be able to test load and traffic for Postgres databases.
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7:19JDHOST
What is it that you want?
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7:21Hunter O’BrienGUEST
I want something that'll, um, Well, A, the documentation on the explain plan, the explain tool could be a little bit more clear, but mainly something to understand why are you making these decisions? Why are you going in this way? And then I know there's an SQL tool, but something where you could suggest, strongly suggest the planner To use this plan because the actual plan that you're coming up with is