Tens of TB per hour

Nik talks Michael through a recent benchmark he worked with Maxim Boguk on, to see how quickly they could provision a replica.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• Ultra-fast replica creation with pgBackRest (blog post by Maxim Boguk and Nik) postgres.ai/blog/20251105-postgres-marathon-2-…
• Copying a database episode postgres.fm/episodes/copying-a-database
• Add snapshot backup support for PostgreSQL in wal-g (draft PR by Andrey Borodin) github.com/wal-g/wal-g/pull/2101
• Multi-threaded pg_basebackup discussion 1: postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEHH7R4%3D_GN%…
• Multi-threaded pg_basebackup discussion 2: postgresql.org/message-id/flat
• io_method postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-res…
• pgBackRest github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
• Add sequence synchronization for logical replication (commit) git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=…
• Allow process priority to be set (pgBackRest feature added by David Steele) github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/pull/2693
• Hard limit on process-max (pgBackRest issue from 2019) github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/issues/696

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• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai (postgres.ai)

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