What is PostgresqlCO.NF? PostgresqlCO.NF (CONF for short) is your postgresql.conf documentation and ultimate recommendations’ source. Our mission is to help you tune and optimize all of your PostgreSQL configuration. With around 290 configuration parameters in postgresql.conf (and counting), it is definitely a difficult task! We aim to make PostgreSQL configuration accessible for HUMANS.

Introduction This post is a reply to MongoDB’s “Benchmarking: Do it right or don’t do it at all” post. Which they wrote as a response to the whitepaper “Performance Benchmark: PostgreSQL / MongoDB", published and sponsored by EnterpriseDB and performed by OnGres. While a long read at close to 50 pages, we encourage you to at least read the executive summary (2 pages) and any other relevant section, to have the right context.