We've managed to give customers up to 5x performance increase on write-heavy workloads by disabling full-page writes, a Postgres durabiity safety feature that is made redundant by Neon's own storage engine.
Fetched May 7, 2026
When a high-volume upsert doubled disk writes, Datadog engineers traced the issue to Postgres WAL behavior and rewrote the query to elimina…
Postgres 18 just shipped, and as always, it’s available in preview on Neon right away. You can try it right now on Neon’s Free plan, no cre…