FinanceHacker Noonabout 4 hours ago
The Hidden Cost of Postgres Constraints at Scale
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FOREIGN KEY and UNIQUE constraints on PostgreSQL trigger MultiXact SLRU contention at 50K inserts per second. Each FK lookup fires a random read against the parent table. Deferred constraints, partial indexes, or application-level validation recover ingest headroom without hardware changes.
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