tldr/pages/common/pgbench.md

pgbench

Run a benchmark test on PostgreSQL. More information: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/pgbench.html.

• Initialize a database with a scale factor of 50 times the default size:

pgbench --initialize --scale={{50}} {{database_name}}

• Benchmark a database with 10 clients, 2 worker threads, and 10,000 transactions per client:

pgbench --clients={{10}} --jobs={{2}} --transactions={{10000}} {{database_name}}