10 Million QPS . . . Efficiently | Scaling Postgres 440

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how to reach 10 million queries per second efficiently, Postgres performance on GPUs, the next release of pgrust and not trusting ON DELETE CASCADE.

Content Discussed

• Open-source Citus matches PlanetScale's Neki at 10M QPS on half the data nodes
• Citus + StackGres
• PostgreSQL Just Got a GPU: Introducing CYBERTEC PGEE GPU
• pgrust v0.4-beta: Gravity, Columnar Indexes, Automatic Memory, and Developing in the Open
• I don't trust ON DELETE CASCADE
• How savepoints quietly throttled our Postgres queue
• Postgres recovery_prefetch Considered Harmful and Causing Outages
• From Oracle DBA to Postgres contributor with Karen Jex
• The reverts will continue until morale improves
• Finding (and Fixing) a Silent Throughput Ceiling in PostgreSQL
• My PostgreSQL is faster than yours and has almost caught up with ClickHouse
• Old tech is sometimes better – a case study based on blogpost from Now-Next…
• PostgreSQL 19: What Changed, What Matters, and What to Test Now
• OAuth in Postgres 19 (and beyond)
• PostgreSQL in the 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey and Book Giveaways
• Your app does not need PostgreSQL superuser
• Building an Ingest Safety Monitor for Your IIoT Pipeline in SQL
• Designing IIoT Ingest That Survives a Cut Uplink
• Binary read replicas in PostgreSQL, Part 1
• Binary read replicas in PostgreSQL, Part 2
• Binary read replicas in PostgreSQL, Part 3
• pgbuild, and Knowing What Ships with pgAdmin
• Two Years of Community Building!
• Every package in the PostgreSQL RPM repositories now has a page
• pgsql_tweaks Version 1.1.0 Released
• Awide Labs open-sources Awide Polar: a PostgreSQL fork with compute-storage disaggregation and HTAP capabilities
• PostgreSQL 19: part 5.2 (DBA1 and DBA2) of CommitFest 2026-03
• PostgreSQL 19: part 5.3 (DBA3 and DBS) of CommitFest 2026-03
• Introducing searchgres.js: Composable Search in PostgreSQL
• Safely enable AI Coding Tools to use EXPLAIN ANALYZE on production: Introducing Workbooks in the pganalyze MCP Server
• Neki update: $50 Metal, read-only replicas, Azure, and more

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