There are multiple tools to run benchmarks on Postgres, but pgbench is probably the most widely used one. The workload is very simple and perhaps a bit synthetic, but almost everyone is familiar with it and it’s a very convenient way to do quick tests and assessments. It was improved in various ways (e.g. to do partitioning), but the initial data load is still serial - only a single process does the COPY. Which annoys me - it may take a lot of time before I can start with the benchmarks its...
