Why is Postgres popular?

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This episode was badly affected by internet issues. Hopefully the edit came out ok, but the quality should be back to a better level from next week.

Here are links to a few things we mentioned:

Monthly blog event, PGSQL Phriday (blog post from Ryan Booz)
Who or what made Postgres cool? (tweet from Kenneth Cassel)
PostGIS
Acquisition of Sun by Oracle
DB-Engines trend
Hacker News hiring trends
Supabase on GitHub (nearly 40k stars)
How I Built This (podcast)

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What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know by tweeting us on @PostgresFM or by commenting on our topic ideas Google doc.

If you would like to share this episode, here's a good link (and thank you!)

Postgres FM is brought to you by:

Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard

With special thanks to:

Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork

144 פרקים

#Tech #News #Tech News #Michael Christofides #Nikolay Samokhvalov #Postgres #PostgreSQL #Database #SQL #Technology

Why is Postgres popular?

Postgres FM

37 subscribers

published לפני 3 שנים

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MP3•בית הפרקים

This episode was badly affected by internet issues. Hopefully the edit came out ok, but the quality should be back to a better level from next week.

Here are links to a few things we mentioned:

Monthly blog event, PGSQL Phriday (blog post from Ryan Booz)
Who or what made Postgres cool? (tweet from Kenneth Cassel)
PostGIS
Acquisition of Sun by Oracle
DB-Engines trend
Hacker News hiring trends
Supabase on GitHub (nearly 40k stars)
How I Built This (podcast)

------------------------

What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know by tweeting us on @PostgresFM or by commenting on our topic ideas Google doc.

If you would like to share this episode, here's a good link (and thank you!)

Postgres FM is brought to you by:

Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard

With special thanks to:

Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork

144 פרקים

#Tech #News #Tech News #Michael Christofides #Nikolay Samokhvalov #Postgres #PostgreSQL #Database #SQL #Technology

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Top ten dangerous issues 46:28

לפני 6 ימים46:28

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Nikolay and Michael discuss ten dangerous Postgres related issues — ones that might be painful enough to get onto the CTO and even CEOs desk, and then what you can do proactively. The ten issues discussed are: Heavy lock contention Bloat control and index maintenance Lightweight lock contention Transaction ID wraparound 4-byte integer PKs hitting the limit Replication limits Hard limits Data loss Poor HA choice (split brain) Corruption of various kinds Some previous episodes they mentioned that cover the issues in more detail: PgDog https://postgres.fm/episodes/pgdog Performance cliffs https://postgres.fm/episodes/performance-cliffs Zero-downtime migrations https://postgres.fm/episodes/zero-downtime-migrations Queues in Postgres https://postgres.fm/episodes/queues-in-postgres Bloat https://postgres.fm/episodes/bloat Index maintenance https://postgres.fm/episodes/index-maintenance Subtransactions https://postgres.fm/episodes/subtransactions Four million TPS https://postgres.fm/episodes/four-million-tps Transaction ID wraparound https://postgres.fm/episodes/transaction-id-wraparound pg_squeeze https://postgres.fm/episodes/pg_squeeze synchronous_commit https://postgres.fm/episodes/synchronous_commit Managed service support https://postgres.fm/episodes/managed-service-support And finally, some other things they mentioned: A great recent SQL Server-related podcast episode on tuning techniques https://kendralittle.com/2024/05/20/erik-darling-and-kendra-little-rate-sql-server-performance-tuning-techniques/ Postgres Indexes, Partitioning and LWLock:LockManager Scalability (blog post by Jeremy Schneider) https://ardentperf.com/2024/03/03/postgres-indexes-partitioning-and-lwlocklockmanager-scalability/ Do you vacuum everyday? (talk by Hannu Krosing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcRi8Z7rkPg pg_stat_wal https://pgpedia.info/p/pg_stat_wal.html The benefit of lz4 and zstd for Postgres WAL compression (Small Datum blog, Mark Callaghan) https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-benefit-of-lz4-and-zstd-for.html Split-brain in case of network partition (CloudNativePG issue/discussion) https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/discussions/7462 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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synchronous_commit 50:53

לפני 13 ימים50:53

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Nikolay and Michael discuss synchronous_commit — what it means on single node setups, for synchronous replication setups, and the pros and cons of the different options for each. Here are some links to things they mentioned: synchronous_commit https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-SYNCHRONOUS-COMMIT synchronous_commit history on pgPedia https://pgpedia.info/s/synchronous_commit.html Patroni’s maximum_lag_on_failover setting https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/master/replication_modes.html#asynchronous-mode-durability wal_writer_delay https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-WAL-WRITER-DELAY Selective asynchronous commits in PostgreSQL - balancing durability and performance (blog post by Shayon Mukherjee) https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/75/selective-asynchronous-commits-in-postgresql-balancing-durability-and-performance/ Asynchronous Commit https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/wal-async-commit.html synchronous_standby_names https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-replication.html#GUC-SYNCHRONOUS-STANDBY-NAMES Jepson article about Amazon RDS multi-AZ clusters (by Kyle Kingsbury, aka "Aphyr”) https://jepsen.io/analyses/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-17.4 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Managed service support 35:37

לפני 20 ימים35:37

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Nikolay and Michael discuss managed service support — some tips on how to handle cases that aren't going well, tips for requesting features, whether to factor in support when choosing service provider, and whether to use one at all. Here are some links to things they mentioned: YugabyteDB’s new upgrade framework https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/postgresql-upgrade-framework Episode on Blue-green deployments https://postgres.fm/episodes/blue-green-deployments pg_createsubscriber https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgcreatesubscriber.html ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Time-series considerations 42:42

לפני 5 weeks42:42

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Nikolay and Michael discuss time-series considerations for Postgres — including when it matters, some tips for avoiding issues, performance considerations, and more. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Time series data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series TimescaleDB https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb 13 Tips to Improve PostgreSQL Insert Performance https://www.timescale.com/blog/13-tips-to-improve-postgresql-insert-performance Why we're leaving the cloud (37 Signals / Basecamp / David Heinemeier Hansson) https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0 UUID v7 and partitioning (“how to” by Nikolay) https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgresql-consulting/postgres-howtos/-/blob/main/0065_uuid_v7_and_partitioning_timescaledb.md pg_cron https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron pg_partman https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman Our episode on BRIN indexes https://postgres.fm/episodes/brin-indexes Tutorial from Citus (Andres Freund and Marco Slot) including rollups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybz6zuXCPo IoT with PostgreSQL (talk by Chris Ellis) https://youtube.com/watch?v=KnUoDBGv4aw&t=58 pg_timeseries https://github.com/tembo-io/pg_timeseries DuckDB https://duckdb.org ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Performance cliffs 38:08

לפני 6 weeks38:08

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Nikolay and Michael are joined by Tomas Vondra to discuss single query performance cliffs — what they are, why they happen, some things we can do to make them less likely or less severe, and some potential improvements to Postgres that could help. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Tomas Vondra https://postgres.fm/people/tomas-vondra Where do performance cliffs come from? (Talk by Tomas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzdAelm-QSY Where do performance cliffs come from? (Slides) https://vondra.me/pdf/performance-cliffs-posette-2024.pdf Increase the number of fast-path lock slots (committed for Postgres 18) https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E1ss4gX-000IvX-63%40gemulon.postgresql.org San Francisco Bay Area Postgres meet-up with Tomas on 8th April (online) https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-1/events/306484787 Our episode on Extended Statistics https://postgres.fm/episodes/extended-statistics Logging plan of the currently running query (proposed patch by Rafael Thofehrn Castro and Atsushi Torikoshi) https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5330 Our episode with Peter Geoghegan on Skip Scan https://postgres.fm/episodes/skip-scan Index Prefetching patch that Tomas is collaborating with Peter Geoghegan on https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/4351 A generalized join algorithm, G-Join (paper by Goetz Graefe) https://dl.gi.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/ce8e3fab-0bac-45fc-a6d4-66edaa52d574/content Smooth Scan: Robust Access Path Selection without Cardinality Estimation (paper by R. Borovica, S. Idreos, A. Ailamaki, M. Zukowski, C. Fraser) https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum4611/files/stratos/files/smoothscan.pdf Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/jit.html Notes from a pgconf.dev unconference session in 2024 about JIT (discusses issues) https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGConf.dev_2024_Developer_Unconference#JIT_compilation Implementing an alternative JIT provider for PostgreSQL (by Xing Guo) https://higuoxing.com/archives/implementing-jit-provider-for-pgsql Tomas’ Office Hours https://vondra.me/posts/office-hours-experiment ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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PgDog 48:34

לפני 7 weeks48:34

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Nikolay and Michael are joined by Lev Kokotov to discuss PgDog — including whether or when sharding is needed, the origin story (via PgCat), what's already supported, and what's coming next. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Lev Kokotov https://postgres.fm/people/lev-kokotov PgDog https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog PgCat https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat Adopting PgCat (Instacart blog post) https://www.instacart.com/company/how-its-made/adopting-pgcat-a-nextgen-postgres-proxy PgDog discussion on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364668 Citus https://github.com/citusdata/citus Sharding & IDs at Instagram (blog post) https://instagram-engineering.com/sharding-ids-at-instagram-1cf5a71e5a5c Sharding pgvector (blog post by Lev) https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-pgvector ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Snapshots 44:05

לפני 8 weeks44:05

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Nikolay talks Michael through using cloud snapshots — how they can be used to reduce RTO for huge Postgres setups, also to improve provisioning time, and some major catches to be aware of. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Snapshots on RDS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_CreateSnapshot.html pgBackRest https://pgbackrest.org WAL-G https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g pg_backup_start and pg_backup_stop (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-BACKUP How to troubleshoot long Postgres startup (by Nikolay) https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgresql-consulting/postgres-howtos/-/blob/main/0003_how_to_troubleshoot_long_startup.md Restoring to a DB instance (RDS docs mentioning lazy loading) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_RestoreFromSnapshot.html Amazon EBS fast snapshot restore https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-fast-snapshot-restore.html Our 100th episode “To 100TB, and beyond!” https://postgres.fm/episodes/to-100tb-and-beyond ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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GIN Indexes 40:59

לפני 9 weeks40:59

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Nikolay and Michael discuss GIN indexes in Postgres — what they are, what they're used for, and some limitations to be aware of. Here are some links to things they mentioned: GIN Indexes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/gin.html Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Hellerstein, Naughton, Pfeffer) https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/vldb95-gist.pdf RUM extension https://pgxn.org/dist/rum/1.1.0/ Understanding Postgres GIN Indexes: The Good and the Bad (Lukas Fittl) https://pganalyze.com/blog/gin-index ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Best Practices 40:49

לפני 10 weeks40:49

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Nikolay and Michael use a recent "best practices" article as a prompt — giving a few tips each on the topics mentioned, like schema design, performance, backups, and more. Here are some links to things they mentioned: 7 Crucial PostgreSQL Best Practices (recent blog post) https://speakdatascience.com/postgresql-best-practices “Don't do this” episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/dont-do-this Article discussion on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992913 Mozilla’s SQL Style Guide https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/sql_style “SQL vs NoSQL” episode with Franck Pachot https://postgres.fm/episodes/sql-vs-nosql HA episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/high-availability ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Extended Statistics 32:41

לפני 11 weeks32:41

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Nikolay and Michael discuss the CREATE STATISTICS feature in Postgres — what it's for, how often it's used, and how to spot cases where it would help. Here are some links to things they mentioned: CREATE STATISTICS https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createstatistics.html citext https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/citext.html Statistics Used by the Planner https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/planner-stats.html default_statistics_target https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html#GUC-DEFAULT-STATISTICS-TARGET Tomáš Vondra on Postgres TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8la-OWfD3VI Recent commit to Postgres 18 for pg_upgrade https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=1fd1bd871012732e3c6c482667d2f2c56f1a9395 Multivariate Statistics Examples https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/multivariate-statistics-examples.html Extended statistics (README) https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend/statistics/README How we used Postgres extended statistics to achieve a 3000x speedup (blog post by Jared Rulison) https://build.affinity.co/how-we-used-postgres-extended-statistics-to-achieve-a-3000x-speedup-ea93d3dcdc61 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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SQL vs NoSQL 50:01

לפני 13 weeks50:01

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Nikolay and Michael are joined by Franck Pachot to discuss SQL vs NoSQL — did Franck change teams by joining MongoDB, normalisation vs denormalisation, developer experience, NULLs, and more! Here are some links to things they mentioned: Franck Pachot https://postgres.fm/people/franck-pachot Franck's workshop at PGConf India https://pgconf.in/conferences/pgconfin2025/program/proposals/958 PostgreSQL Conference Germany https://2025.pgconf.de "Schema Later" Considered Harmful by Michael Stonebraker and Álvaro Hernández https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/schema-later-considered-harmful Comparison of JOINS by Michael Stonebraker and Álvaro Hernández https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/comparison-joins-mongodb-vs-postgresql Franck’s post about why he joined MongoDB https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-im-joining-mongodb-franck-pachot-e4shf EdgeDB https://www.edgedb.com Nikolay’s tweet about a recent issue with NULLs https://x.com/samokhvalov/status/1889078097124999272 PartiQL https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/ql-reference.html FerretDB https://www.ferretdb.com DocumentDB https://github.com/microsoft/documentdb ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Return of the BUFFERS 51:46

לפני 14 weeks51:46

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Nikolay and Michael return to the topic of BUFFERS for the third (and final?) time! They discuss the news that it'll be on by default with EXPLAIN ANALYZE in Postgres 18, and what effect that might have. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Our first BUFFERS episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/buffers-by-default Our second BUFFERS episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/buffers-ii-the-sequel BUFFERS enabled for EXPLAIN ANALYZE by default (commit for Postgres 18) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=c2a4078ebad71999dd451ae7d4358be3c9290b07 https://explain.depesz.com/history Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 Twitter conversation about flushing caches https://x.com/prochazkafilip/status/1881655337499205736 pg_buffercache_evict https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgbuffercache.html#PGBUFFERCACHE-PG-BUFFERCACHE-EVICT How to compare the quality of SQL query plans (blog post by Andrei Lepikhov) https://danolivo.substack.com/p/whose-optimisation-is-better We were added as PostgreSQL Contributors! https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/new-postgresql-contributors-3006 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Reads causing writes 26:48

לפני 16 weeks26:48

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Nikolay and Michael discuss a couple of surprising ways read queries (selects) can cause writes (shared buffers dirtied) in Postgres. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Reads causing writes in Postgres (post by Alex Jesipow) https://jesipow.com/blog/postgres-reads-cause-writes/ Exploring how SELECT queries can produce disk writes (post by Nikolay Sivko) https://blog.okmeter.io/postgresql-exploring-how-select-queries-can-produce-disk-writes-f36c8bee6b6f Hint Bits (wiki) https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hint_Bits pg_stat_statements https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.html pg_stat_kcache https://github.com/powa-team/pg_stat_kcache pg_wait_sampling https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling BUFFERS by default (episode 4!) https://postgres.fm/episodes/buffers-by-default Page layout (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-page-layout.html From Reddit (user merlinm), PD_ALL_VISIBLE may be a third case https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/1hjuyfn/comment/m3e6e7v/ Coroot https://coroot.com/ ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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NOT VALID constraints 33:56

לפני 17 weeks33:56

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Nikolay and Michael discuss adding constraints in an online fashion, using NOT VALID and then VALIDATE CONSTRAINT. Here are some links to things they mentioned: ADD table_constraint NOT VALID https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html#SQL-ALTERTABLE-DESC-ADD-TABLE-CONSTRAINT Our episode on zero-downtime migrations https://postgres.fm/episodes/zero-downtime-migrations VALIDATE CONSTRAINT https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html#SQL-ALTERTABLE-DESC-VALIDATE-CONSTRAINT ALTER TABLE notes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html#SQL-ALTERTABLE-NOTES pgroll https://github.com/xataio/pgroll ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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pg_squeeze 36:26

לפני 18 weeks36:26

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Michael and Nikolay are joined by Antonín Houska to discuss pg_squeeze — what it is, how it started, some of its features, and hopes of getting the functionality into core. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Antonín Houska https://postgres.fm/people/antonin-houska pg_squeeze https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_squeeze Cybertec https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com pg_repack https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack Introducing pg_squeeze (by Kaarel Moppel) https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/introducing-pg_squeeze-a-postgresql-extension-to-auto-rebuild-bloated-tables pg_squeeze is included in the PostgreSQL APT packages https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt pg_squeeze is included in the PostgreSQL Yum packages https://yum.postgresql.org pg_rewrite https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_rewrite VACUUM FULL / CLUSTER CONCURRENTLY patch https://commitfest.postgresql.org/51/5117 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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pg_duckdb 40:08

לפני 19 weeks40:08

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Michael and Nikolay are joined by Joe Sciarrino and Jelte Fennema-Nio to discuss pg_duckdb — what it is, how it started, what early users are using it for, and what they're working on next. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Joe Sciarrino https://postgres.fm/people/joe-sciarrino Jelte Fennema-Nio https://postgres.fm/people/jelte-fennema-nio pg_duckdb https://github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb Hydra https://www.hydra.so MotherDuck https://motherduck.com The problems and benefits of an elephant with a beak (lightning talk by Jelte) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogvbKE4fw9A&list=PLF36ND7b_WU4QL6bA28NrzBOevqUYiPYq&t=1073s pg_duckdb announcement post (by Jordan and Brett from MotherDuck) https://motherduck.com/blog/pg_duckdb-postgresql-extension-for-duckdb-motherduck pg_duckdb 0.2 release https://github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb/releases/tag/v0.2.0 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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RLS vs performance 40:48

לפני 21 weeks40:48

40:48

Nikolay and Michael discuss Row Level Security in Postgres, focussing on the performance side effects and some tips to avoid (or minimize) them. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Row Security Policies (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html 7+ million Postgres tables (recent talk by Kailash Nadh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhi5Q_wL9i0 Row Level Security guide (Supabase docs) https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security current_setting function https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html#id-1.5.8.34.3.6.2.2.1.1.1.1 Our slow count episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/slow-count RLS Performance and Best Practices (gist from Gary Austin) https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/14576 Everything you need to know about Postgres Row Level Security (talk by Paul Copplestone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZT1Qx2xUCo BUFFERS enabled for EXPLAIN ANALYZE by default (commit for Postgres 18) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=c2a4078ebad71999dd451ae7d4358be3c9290b07 Add UUID version 7 generation function (commit for Postgres 18) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=78c5e141e9c139fc2ff36a220334e4aa25e1b0eb Postgres hacking session with Andrey and Kirk (for UUIDv7): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPq_hiOE-N8 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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jOOQ 50:31

לפני 22 weeks50:31

50:31

Michael and Nikolay are joined by Lukas Eder, the creator of jOOQ, to discuss what it is, some nice developer experience features it has, and some fun things he's come across from a Postgres perspective. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Lukas Eder https://postgres.fm/people/lukas-eder jOOQ https://www.jooq.org/ DSL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language SQL Dialects https://www.jooq.org/javadoc/latest/org.jooq/org/jooq/SQLDialect.html MERGE https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-merge.html match_recognize https://modern-sql.com/feature/match_recognize JOOQ, joy of SQL (talk by Kevin Davin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ej47GZX9D8 BUFFERS enabled for EXPLAIN ANALYZE by default (commit for Postgres 18) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=c2a4078ebad71999dd451ae7d4358be3c9290b07 PostGIS https://postgis.net/ 10 SQL Tricks That You Didn’t Think Were Possible (blog post by Lukas) https://blog.jooq.org/10-sql-tricks-that-you-didnt-think-were-possible/ jOOQ questions on Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jooq Our episode on NULLs https://postgres.fm/episodes/nulls-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-unknown ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Column Tetris 41:06

לפני 23 weeks41:06

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Nikolay and Michael discuss "Column Tetris" — what it is, why it matters, how to order columns for new tables, and how to re-organise existing ones. Here are some links to things they mentioned: “Column Tetris” by Erwin Brandstetter on Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2966524/calculating-and-saving-space-in-postgresql/7431468#7431468 Data Types https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype.html OrioleDB beta7 benchmarks https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta7-benchmarks pg_hexedit https://github.com/petergeoghegan/pg_hexedit Saving Space Basically for Free (blog post by James Coleman from Braintree) https://medium.com/paypal-tech/postgresql-at-scale-saving-space-basically-for-free-d94483d9ed9a Ordering Table Columns (GitLab https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/database/ordering_table_columns.html postgres_dba alignment padding query https://github.com/NikolayS/postgres_dba/blob/master/sql/p1_alignment_padding.sql Good explanation from Marco Slot of how alignment was used to fix a recent issue https://x.com/marcoslot/status/1858132850383421570 pg_repack feature request discussion https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack/issues/101 Our episode on bloat (with Chelsea Dole) https://postgres.fm/episodes/bloat Optimizing table layout for maximum efficiency (blog post by Renato Massaro) https://r.ena.to/blog/optimizing-postgres-table-layout-for-maximum-efficiency ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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pg_stat_statements track_planning 37:55

לפני 24 weeks37:55

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Nikolay and Michael discuss the track_planning parameter of pg_stat_statements — what it is, how it affects performance, and when or whether you should switch it on. Here are some links to things they mentioned: pg_stat_statements.track_planning https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.html#id-1.11.7.40.9.2.4.1.3 Our episode about pg_stat_statements https://postgres.fm/episodes/pg_stat_statements PostgreSQL 13.0 release notes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/13.0/ track_planning causing performance regression (thread on hackers during v13 beta) https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2895b53b033c47ccb22972b589050dd9%40EX13D05UWC001.ant.amazon.com Our episode on 4 million TPS https://postgres.fm/episodes/four-million-tps Observer effect in pg_stat_statements and pg_stat_kcache (Postgres TV Hacking session with Andrey and Kirk) https://www.youtube.com/live/wHMNX-fHb2A?si=DPgmrPaSpPF6DxuS ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Is pg_dump a backup tool? 48:44

לפני 25 weeks48:44

48:44

Michael and Nikolay are joined by Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek and Robert Haas to discuss both the technical question of whether or not pg_dump is a backup tool, as well as the tone and intent behind the statement "pg_dump is not a backup tool". Here are some links to things they mentioned: Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek https://postgres.fm/people/gulcin-yildirim-jelinek Robert Haas https://postgres.fm/people/robert-haas Why you should upgrade PostgreSQL today (blog post by Gülçin) https://xata.io/blog/cve-2024-7348-postgres-upgrade If pg_dump is not a backup tool, what is? (blog post by Gülçin) https://xata.io/blog/pgdump-is-not-a-backup-tool Is pg_dump a backup tool? (blog post by Robert) https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/10/is-pgdump-backup-tool.html?m=1 Why pg_dump is amazing (blog post by Robert) https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-pgdump-is-amazing.html Avoid too prominent use of "backup" on pg_dump man page (commit by Peter Eisentraut) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=4f29394ea941f688fd4faf7260d2c198931ca797 Is pg_dump a backup tool? (poll by Nikolay with options Yes / No / Define backup) https://x.com/samokhvalov/status/1847015453056786771 What's the best way to make a backup (a recent example discussion on Reddit) https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/1gu4r05/whats_the_best_way_to_make_a_backup/ Hackers mailing list https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-hackers/ Praise, Criticism, and Dialogue (blog post by Robert) https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2023/12/praise-criticism-and-dialogue.html Out-of-cycle release scheduled for November 21, 2024 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/out-of-cycle-release-scheduled-for-november-21-2024-2958/ pgBackRest https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest Barman https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman Our previous episode on backups https://postgres.fm/episodes/backups ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Append-only tables 44:07

לפני 26 weeks44:07

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Nikolay and Michael discuss append-only tables in Postgres — what they are, some unique challenges they bring, and some options for compressing / removing / offloading the data eventually. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Append-only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Append-only Our episode on BRIN indexes https://postgres.fm/episodes/brin-indexes Tips to Improve Insert Performance https://www.timescale.com/blog/13-tips-to-improve-postgresql-insert-performance/ Our episode on WAL and checkpoint tuning https://postgres.fm/episodes/wal-and-checkpoint-tuning autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-autovacuum.html#GUC-AUTOVACUUM-VACUUM-INSERT-SCALE-FACTOR Our episode about compression https://postgres.fm/episodes/compression New project announced recently called BemiDB https://x.com/samokhvalov/status/1854726389603484145 pg_tier https://github.com/tembo-io/pg_tier ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

Postgres FM

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Denormalization 35:08

לפני 27 weeks35:08

35:08

Nikolay and Michael discuss denormalization in Postgres — when and why to denormalize things, and a couple of specific cases Nikolay came across recently. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Denormalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormalization Our episode on materialized views https://postgres.fm/episodes/materialized-views Our episode on data model trade-offs https://postgres.fm/episodes/data-model-trade-offs Our episode with Markus Winand https://postgres.fm/episodes/modern-sql Universal Relation Data Modelling Considered Harmful (blog post by Michael Stonebraker and Álvaro Hernández) https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/universal-relation-data-modelling-considered-harmful Boyce–Codd normal form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce%E2%80%93Codd_normal_form Our episode on slow count https://postgres.fm/episodes/slow-count pg_ivm https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm denorm https://github.com/rivethealth/denorm Postgres Materialized Views, The Timescale Way (blog post by David Kohn) https://www.timescale.com/blog/materialized-views-the-timescale-way/ PgQ https://github.com/pgq/pgq Databases, types, and the relational model (by C.J. Date and Hugh Darwen) https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

Postgres FM

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Postgres online communities 38:09

לפני 28 weeks38:09

38:09

Nikolay and Michael discuss online Postgres communities — the ones they prefer, the types of conversations in each, and some other places to ask questions or follow news. Here are some links to things they mentioned: https://www.postgresql.org/community Mailing lists https://www.postgresql.org/list IRC https://www.postgresql.org/community/irc Slack https://pgtreats.info/slack-invite Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postgres DBA Stack Exchange https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/postgres Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL Discord https://discord.gg/bW2hsax8We How to run ANALYZE (merge request discussion) https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgresql-consulting/postgres-howtos/-/merge_requests/35 This episode on YouTube https://postgresqlco.nf Planet PostgreSQL https://planet.postgresql.org Postgres Weekly https://postgresweekly.com ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Advanced psql 52:37

לפני 29 weeks52:37

52:37

Nikolay and Michael discuss some cool things you can do with psql, the official CLI that ships with Postgres. Here are some links to things they mentioned: psql docs https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html Our episode on psql vs GUIs https://postgres.fm/episodes/psql-vs-guis postgres_dba https://github.com/NikolayS/postgres_dba Our episode on massive deletes https://postgres.fm/episodes/massive-deletes Postgres hacking session on \watch with limited number of loops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTV8XhWf3mo pspg https://github.com/okbob/pspg Our episode on Postgres gotchas https://postgres.fm/episodes/postgres-gotchas current_setting() and set_config() docs https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-SET psql tips (site by Lætitia Avrot) https://psql-tips.org ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Postgres Gotchas 40:19

לפני 30 weeks40:19

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Nikolay and Michael discuss some Postgres Gotchas, things you might expect to work one way in fact working another way. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Our episode on NULLs https://postgres.fm/episodes/nulls-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-unknown Postgres Gotchas (list by Ian Barwick) https://sql-info.de/postgresql/postgres-gotchas.html Our episode on slow count https://postgres.fm/episodes/slow-count Discussion on X about major version upgrades and statistics https://x.com/samokhvalov/status/1844593601638260850 Our episode on upgrades https://postgres.fm/episodes/upgrades Statistics Import and Export (commitfest entry which link to email thread) https://commitfest.postgresql.org/50/4538/ vacuumdb https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-vacuumdb.html vacuum_cost_delay https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-resource.html#GUC-VACUUM-COST-DELAY Zero-downtime Postgres schema migrations need lock_timeout and retries (blog post by Nikolay) https://postgres.ai/blog/20210923-zero-downtime-postgres-schema-migrations-lock-timeout-and-retries Postgres Hacking 101: adding params, prevent_unqualified_deletes and prevent_unqualified_updates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=samLkrC5xQA PostgREST suggestion to use pg-safeupdate https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v12/integrations/pg-safeupdate.html#pg-safeupdate DBOS (new company co-founded by Michael Stonebraker) https://www.dbos.dev ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Advanced EXPLAIN 48:47

לפני 31 weeks48:47

48:47

Nikolay and Michael discuss some more advanced topics around EXPLAIN, including some tips for complex query plans, some recent improvements, and an idea or two that might make it even better. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Michael’s solo episode on EXPLAIN basics https://postgres.fm/episodes/explain Our episode on auto_explain https://postgres.fm/episodes/auto_explain Which cloud providers support auto_explain? (Blog post by Michael) https://www.pgmustard.com/blog/which-cloud-providers-support-auto-explain psychopg https://www.psycopg.org Our first episode on BUFFERS https://postgres.fm/episodes/buffers-by-default Our second episode on BUFFERS https://postgres.fm/episodes/buffers-ii-the-sequel track_io_timing https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-statistics.html#GUC-TRACK-IO-TIMING compute_query_id https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-statistics.html#GUC-COMPUTE-QUERY-ID EXPLAIN: beyond the basics (talk by Michael) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGkSOvuaPs4 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Patroni 45:33

לפני 32 weeks45:33

45:33

Michael and Nikolay are joined by Alexander Kukushkin, PostgreSQL contributor and maintainer of Patroni, to discuss all things Patroni — what it is, how it works, recent improvements, and more. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Alexander Kukushkin https://postgres.fm/people/alexander-kukushkin Patroni https://github.com/patroni/patroni Spilo https://github.com/zalando/spilo Zalando Postgres Operator https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator Crunchy Data Postgres Operator https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator Split-brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain_(computing) repmgr https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/repmgr CloudNativePG https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg Patroni release notes https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases.html Citus & Patroni talk and demo by Alexander (at Citus Con 2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw8O9d0ez7E ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Postgres 17 42:03

לפני 33 weeks42:03

42:03

Nikolay and Michael discuss the fresh new Postgres 17 release! They cover several performance improvements, favourite new features, and some considerations for upgrading. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Postgres 17 release notes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/release-17.html transaction_timeout episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/transaction_timeout VACUUM improvements discussed towards end of episode with Melanie Plageman https://postgres.fm/episodes/getting-started-with-benchmarking B-tree improvements discussed in episdode with Peter Geoghegan https://postgres.fm/episodes/skip-scan As Rails developers, why we are excited about PostgreSQL 17 (blog post by Benoit Tigeot) https://benoittgt.github.io/blog/postgres_17_rails/ Real World Performance Gains With Postgres 17 B-tree Bulk Scans (blog post by Brandur Leach) https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/real-world-performance-gains-with-postgres-17-btree-bulk-scans MERGE RETURNING came up towards end of episode with Haki Benita https://postgres.fm/episodes/get-or-create uuid_extract_timestamp and uuid_extract_version functions https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-uuid.html Episode on UUID https://postgres.fm/episodes/uuid Partitioning by ULID https://postgres.fm/episodes/partitioning-by-ulid Why Upgrade? (site by depesz) https://why-upgrade.depesz.com Why we spent the last month eliminating PostgreSQL subtransactions (GitLab blog post) https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/09/29/why-we-spent-the-last-month-eliminating-postgresql-subtransactions Synchronization of sequences to subscriber (patch that needs review!) https://commitfest.postgresql.org/49/5111 ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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Planning time 42:17

לפני 34 weeks42:17

42:17

Nikolay and Michael discuss planning time in Postgres — what it is, how to spot issues, its relationship to things like partitioning, and some tips for avoiding issues. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Query Planning (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html Are there limits to partition counts? (Blog post by depesz) https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/17/are-there-limits-to-partition-counts Nikolays recent experiment https://postgres.ai/chats/01920004-a982-7896-b8cb-dfd2406359b0 PgBouncer now supports prepared statements https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/releases/tag/pgbouncer_1_21_0 “The year of the lock manager’s revenge” (from blog post by Jeremy Schneider) https://ardentperf.com/2024/03/03/postgres-indexes-partitioning-and-lwlocklockmanager-scalability pg_stat_statements.track_planning https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.html#id-1.11.7.42.9.2.4.1.3 pg_hint_plan https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork…

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