Episode 132
Reads causing writes
Postgres FM · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
January 24, 202526m 48s
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Show Notes
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/
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Postgres FM is produced by:
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
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