An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and Monitoring Improvements
The first beta release of the upcoming Postgres 14 release was made available yesterday. In this article we'll take a first look at what's in the beta, with an emphasis on one major performance improvement, as well as three monitoring improvements that caught our attention.
Before we get started, I wanted to highlight what always strikes me as an important unique aspect of Postgres: Compared to most other open-source database systems, Postgres is not the project of a single company, but rather many individuals coming together to work on a new release, year after year. And that includes everyone who tries out the beta releases, and reports bugs to the Postgres project. We hope this post inspires you to do your own testing and benchmarking.
Now, I'm personally most excited about better connection scaling in Postgres 14. For this post we ran a detailed benchmark comparing Postgres 13.3 to 14 beta1 (note that the connection count is log scale):
