On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 3:05 PM Erik Wienhold <e...@ewie.name> wrote: > > On 05/02/2023 23:17 CET Richard Brockie <richard.broc...@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. > > pgbench is what your looking for: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgbench.html > > 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. > Understood - thanks again! -- R. Richard Brockie Real-time bicycle race management - www.ontheday.net