More concurrency: Improved locking in PostgreSQL

If you want to build a large scale website, scaling out the webserver is not enough. It is also necessary to cleverly manage the database side. a key to high scalability is locking.

In PostgreSQL we got a couple of new cool features to reduce locking and to speed up things due to improved concurrency.

General recommendations: Before attacking locking, however, it makes sense to check what is really going on on your PostgreSQL database server. To do so I recommend to take a look at pg_stat_statements and to carefully track down bottlenecks. Here is how it works: