Episode 154
Self-driving Postgres
Postgres FM · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
August 15, 202559m 13s
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Show Notes
Nikolay and Michael discuss self-driving Postgres — what it could mean, using self-driving cars as a reference, and ideas for things to build and optimize for in this area.
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
- Nikolay’s blog post on Self-driving Postgres https://postgres.ai/blog/20250725-self-driving-postgres
- SAE J3016 levels of driving automation https://www.sae.org/news/2019/01/sae-updates-j3016-automated-driving-graphic
- Oracle Autonomous Database https://www.oracle.com/uk/autonomous-database/
- Self-Driving Database Management Systems (2017 paper) https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2017/p42-pavlo-cidr17.pdf
- PGTune https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/
- pg_index_pilot https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/pg_index_pilot/
- [Vibe] Hacking Postgres with Andrey, Kirk, Nik – index bloat, btree page merge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1PEdDcvZTw
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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
Topics
PostgresPostgreSQLDatabasesSQLtechnology