# OpenAI — Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-01-22T12:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql
- Record: https://forck.live/items/298-scaling-postgresql-to-power-800-million-chatgpt-users

This article describes OpenAI's infrastructure techniques for scaling PostgreSQL to handle millions of queries per second for ChatGPT.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql:

> An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.

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