Wait events
Postgres FM · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
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Show Notes
Nikolay and Michael discuss wait events — what they are, why we have them, and how to use them to help diagnose performance issues.
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- Wait events table (docs)
- 9.6 release notes
- PostgreSQL Scalability (blog post by Alexander Korotkov)
- Wait event analysis in pganalyze
- auto_explain
- Database Lab Engine
- track_io_timing
- pg_test_timing
- pgBadger
- Coroot
- Okmeter
- pgwatch2 Postgres.ai Edition
- pg_wait_sampling
- pgsentinel
- Datadog
- AWS RDS docs for PostgreSQL wait events
- pgMustard newsletter
- PASH Viewer
- pgCenter
- Intro to query optimisation episode
- Monitoring checklist episode
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Postgres FM is brought to you by:
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
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