a deep dive on what breaks inside PostgreSQL when you connect an AI agent to it — connection pools, query planner, locks, the works.
TL;DR: A traditional app holds a DB connection for ~5ms. An AI agent holds it for ~6,000ms because the connection stays open while the LLM thinks. That's a 1,200x reduction in effective throughput from the same pool.
The article traces a single agent-generated query through every layer of the database — connection pool, query planner, schema inference, lock manager — and shows where each assumption breaks.
Full article: https://medium.com/@visheshrawal/what-really-happens-inside-your-database-when-an-ai-agent-starts-querying-6d5254aeaa78
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