Scaling Postgres
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Postgres 19 Beta 4 Released! | Scaling Postgres 436
Postgres 19 Revert Train! | Scaling Postgres 435
Postgres 19 Reversions | Scaling Postgres 434
Read After Write | Scaling Postgres 433
23 Times Faster Inserts With UUIDv7 | Scaling Postgres 432
pg_rust Co-Creator postgres.fm Interview | Scaling Postgres 431
28 Security Vulnerabilities | Scaling Postgres 430
300 Times Faster Analytics With pgrust | Scaling Postgres 429
Postgres MVCC Is Bad? | Scaling Postgres 428
Migrating to pg_hardstorage | Scaling Postgres 427
pgrust Faster Than Postgres? | Scaling Postgres 426
Novel Partition Exclusion | Scaling Postgres 425
Too Many Table Danger | Scaling Postgres 424
New Backup Tool | Scaling Postgres 423
Scaling Out To 226K TPS | Scaling Postgres 422
Scale Out Funding | Scaling Postgres 421
Postgres 19 Beta 1 Released | Scaling Postgres 420
The Dynamic Duo? | Scaling Postgres 419
Multigres Architecture | Scaling Postgres 418
11 Security Issues | Scaling Postgres 417
Zero Bloat Postgres Queue | Scaling Postgres 416
pgBackRest Is Dead? | Scaling Postgres 415
Repack Concurrently | Scaling Postgres 414
Shard With One Command | Scaling Postgres 413
Half as Fast on Linux 7 | Scaling Postgres 412
Absorbing Load | Scaling Postgres 411
Ep 410Postgres Traffic Cop! | Scaling Postgres 410
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a proprietary way of controlling Postgres query traffic, preserving statistics during upgrades, a DB schema migration survey and a new repack command. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/410-postgres-traffic-cop/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 409Iceberg Causes Postgres Acquisitions? | Scaling Postgres 409
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how Apache Iceberg may have lead to Postgres company acquisitions, presentations on CloudNativePG & query tuning, setting up Patroni and utilizing PgBouncer. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/409-iceberg-causes-postgres-acquisitions/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 408Open Source Eating The World | Scaling Postgres 408
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how open source is eating the world, mitigating plan flips, migrating from Heroku to RDS, and how work_mem is a trap. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/408-open-source-eating-the-world/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 407Stable Plans? | Scaling Postgres 407
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the possibility of having stable plans in Postgres 19, settings to kill disconnected or crashed clients, on conflict do select and all about Patroni. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/407-stable-plans/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 406Lock Causes Data To Vanish! | Scaling Postgres 406
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how a lock can cause data to vanish, new Postgres releases, fast replication with peerDB and pg_ash for wait sampling. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/406-lock-causes-data-to-vanish/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 405Out of Cycle Releases | Scaling Postgres 405
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss an out of cycle Postgres release, a Supabase downtime incident, optimizing top K queries and how to maintain reading efficiency. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/405-out-of-cycle-releases/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 404Postmaster Does Not Scale! | Scaling Postgres 404
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how the postmaster does not scale, new Postgres releases, data storage using PAX and a path generation strategies change. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/404-postmaster-does-not-scale/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 403Mitigate Retry Storms? | Scaling Postgres 403
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a potential way to mitigate retry storms or orphan DB sessions with client_connection_check_interval, checkpoint configuration, skip scans and more just use Postgres. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/403-mitigate-retry-storms/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 402Millions of QPS | Scaling Postgres 402
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how OpenAI's ChatGPT handles millions of queries per second, an update on PgDog, Clickhouse offers OLTP hosted Postgres and partition table source of truth. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/402-millions-of-qps/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 401One Billion Vectors On Postgres | Scaling Postgres 401
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss searching one billion vectors on Postgres, how to bypass a vector index search, unconventional optimizations and a 40x boost to listen/notify performance. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/401-one-billion-vectors-on-postgres/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 400The Cost of Arrays | Scaling Postgres 400
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the cost of arrays, dealing with integer overflow, idle sessions causing transaction wraparound and AI or LLM index recommendations. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/400-the-cost-of-arrays/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 399Index Overhead? | Scaling Postgres 399
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the overhead of indexes, a Postgres year in review, an intro to row locking and table renaming issues. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/399-index-overhead/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 398Latency Killing Performance? | Scaling Postgres 398
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we examine how latency impacts performance, naughty queries, bm25 indexes and how to quickly create database clones. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/398-latency-killing-performance/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 397Vacuum Is Lying To You? | Scaling Postgres 397
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss if vacuum is lying to you with regard to index cleanup, an agentic toolkit with MCP server, indexes getting corrupted after an upgrade and $50 Planetscale Metal. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/397-vacuum-is-lying-to-you/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 396600 Times Faster Analytics | Scaling Postgres 396
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using Postgres queries in ClickHouse, faster faceted search, max_connections & migrations and different scan types. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/396-600-times-faster-analytics/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 39516 Times Faster Join Plans | Scaling Postgres 395
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a patch that can plan joins 16 times faster, the best way to record text values, extensions via image volumes with CloudNativePG and using pg_partman vs rolling your own. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/395-16-times-faster-join-plans/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 3945 Times Faster Aggregates | Scaling Postgres 394
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Black Friday / Cyber Monday course deal, the job security that LLMs provide, new Postgres releases and why you should hard your datbase. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/394-five-times-faster-aggregates/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 393Job Security? | Scaling Postgres 393
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Black Friday / Cyber Monday course deal, the job security that LLMs provide, new Postgres releases and why you should shard your database. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/393-job-security/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 392100 Times Faster By Skipping! | Scaling Postgres 392
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss performance improvements related to skip scans, faster backup & restore, benefits of minimal indexes and more details about my upcoming course discount. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/392-100-times-faster-by-skipping/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 391Table Lock Explosion! | Scaling Postgres 391
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the issues of partition locking during planning, the problem of too much memory, the importance of a txvector column and an upcoming sale on my course. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/391-table-lock-explosion/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 3901.2 Million Messages Per Second | Scaling Postgres 390
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how far Postgres can scale with queue and pub/sub workloads, temporal joins, IPC:SyncRep and nested partitioning. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/390-1.2-million-messages-per-second/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 389Heavy Reader or Writer? | Scaling Postgres 389
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss ways to optimize reading or writing, the benefits of a descending index, more information about lightweight locks and a backup public service announcement. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/389-heavy-reader-or-writer/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 388NVME Wins? | Scaling Postgres 388
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PG17 and PG18 benchmarks across storage types, more about Postgres locks, sanitizing SQL and can a faster software & hardware environment cause performance problems? To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/388-nvme-wins/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/
Ep 387Boosting Planning Performance | Scaling Postgres 387
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we explore how PG18 locking changes can boost planning performance, how to store data safely on a budget, how to build a parquet file archive solution and we discuss the completion of the summer of upgrades. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/387-boosting-planning-performance/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/courses/postgres-performance-demystified/