When you run a relational database, you typically do it for the joins, aggregations, subqueries, etc. So a real-life scenario would include some application actually putting some stress on postgres.

If your don't mind overprovisioning your postgres, yes I guess the presented benchmarks are kind of representative. But they also don't add anything that you didn't know without reading the article.

> If your don't mind overprovisioning your postgres

Why would I mind it? I'm not using overpriced hosted PostgreSQL, after all.