# Can your Postgres survive a bad query?

DevFeed: [Can your Postgres survive a bad query?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/can-your-postgres-survive-a-bad-query-61404.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/can-your-postgres-survive-a-bad-query>)

Author: Kevin Biju Kizhake Kanichery

Published: 2026-09-28T15:37:06Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [Heroku Postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku-postgres.md>), [Amazon RDS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-rds.md>)

Tags: [amazon-rds](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-rds.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [cloud-sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-sql.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [memory-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory-management.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reliability.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines how Postgres providers respond when a query exhausts memory, comparing query failures and cluster survival through a recursive query benchmark across ClickHouse Managed Postgres, Cloud SQL, PlanetScale, and Amazon RDS.

## Source excerpt

How do Postgres providers handle a query that exhausts memory? A recursive query benchmark compares query failures and cluster survival across ClickHouse Managed Postgres, Cloud SQL, PlanetScale, and Amazon RDS.