Scaling Postgres

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the JSON goodies in Postgres 17, trigger recursion, pg_dump as backup and pg_timeseries columnar performance. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/338-json-goodies-in-postgres-17/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how one query runs 77 times faster in Postgres 17, a detailed Postgres 17 performance webinar, using logical replication fail over slots and a discussion on Patroni. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/337-77-times-faster-in-postgres-17/ Want to learn more about Postgres perf...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss more about the features released with Postgres 17, an example of performance improvements, things to watch out for, and the start of Postgres 18. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/336-more-postgres-17-highlights/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE t...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the release of Postgres 17, b-tree performance gains, logical replication enhancements and different levels of performance tuning. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/335-postgres-17-released/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgre...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how to optimize your database for analytics, how to speed up counts, improvements to TimescaleDB and why you should stop using serial. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/334-optimizing-for-analytics/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss when select can write, Postgres RC1 is released, Tetris in SQL and copy, swap, drop. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/333-when-select-writes/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance Demystified here: https://www.scal...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss what can happen when queries get slow, backup best practices, Postgres emergencies and the state of Postgres survey. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/332-sometimes-it-is-slow/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether pg_dump is a backup tool, the pgMonitor extension, Postgres malware, and application uses for the merge command. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/331-is-pg_dump-a-backup-tool/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Perf...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the merging of Postgres and DuckDB via the pg_duckdb extension, how this can help the analytics story for Postgres, some ways to improve PG analytics and building a search engine. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/330-splicing-elephant-and-duck-dna/ Want to learn more about...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PGlite, an embeddable Postgres, postgres.new which adds AI features, new Postgres releases and the performance of synchronous replication. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/329-pglite-embeddable-postgres/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss different get or create implementations, a new pgBouncer version, alter default privileges, and six degrees of separation with Postgres. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/328-implement-get-or-create/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training calle...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using Postgres for graph queries, the fastest way to copy data from one table to another, dealing with linux memory overcommit and compression. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/327-postgres-graph-queries/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we talk about speeding up index creation, extensions to track wait events, a row pattern recognition feature and savepoints. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/326-faster-index-creation/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performance De...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss more ways to keep the superior performance of keyset pagination, how to implement UUIDv7 in SQL functions, how expensive extended statistics are and the benefits of range columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/325-faster-paging/ Want to learn more about Postgres perform...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss experiments to achieve four million transaction per second, the importance of extended statistics, parallelism in Postgres and an introduction to window functions. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/324-four-million-tps/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a breaking change in the new version of PgBouncer, PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2 is released, examination of the new built-in collation provider in PG 17 and Notion's data lake. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/323-pgbouncer-breaking-change/ Want to learn more about Postgres perfor...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss an incremental sort instability issue with the Postgres planner, whether we should use foreign keys, how the visibility map works and how to vacuum the template0 database. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/322-postgres-sort-instability/ Want to learn more about Postgres per...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the shutdown of Ottertune, how schema changes cause locks and how to avoid them, the benefits of on conflic do nothing, and pgvectorscale. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/321-ottertune-is-dead/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Po...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss three organizations scaling their databases to 100 TB and beyond, collation speed, configuring memory and new AI extensions To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/320-100tb-and-beyond/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgres Performan...

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a time when Postgres development stopped, two new extensions pg_lakehouse & pg_compare and the upcoming event Posette. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/319-when-postgres-development-stoppped/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss all the new features in Postgres 17 Beta 1, some features that did not make it, database collations & sorting and causes of slow commits. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/318-postgres-17-beta-1-released/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a new time-series open source extension called pg_timeseries, Postgres ignoring indexes, JSONB selectivity issues, and geographically distributed multi-tenant applications. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/317-time-series-open-source-extension/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new Postgres releases, optimizing a query to be 1,000 times faster, custom vs. generic plans and the pgtt extension. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/316-new-releases-1000-times-faster-query/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how hacking on Postgres is hard, a notifier pattern for using Listen/Notify, using histograms for metrics and saturated arithmetic. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/315-hacking-on-postgres-is-hard/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss performance improvements for pgvector 0.7.0, a guide to vector embeddings, building a Retrieval Augmented Generation app and only allow logins to replicas. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/314-150-times-faster-pgvector/