Scaling Postgres

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether the future of MySQL is Postgres, how to use recursive CTEs, work on OrioleDB, and PG17 performance improvements. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/313-the-future-of-mysql-is-postgres/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we cover potential features in Postgres 17 such as explain serialize, verbose copy, pg_buffer_cache_evict, as well as many others. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/312-postgres-17-commit-orama/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a 1,400 times faster max and group by implementation, new quantization capabilities in pgvector, adaptive radix trees and splitting & merging partitions in PG17. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/311-max-group-by-performance/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether Postgres will pull a Redis, remembering Simon Riggs, built-in collation provider and C.UTF-8 in PG 17 and health checks. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/310-andres-microsoft-postgres-save-linux/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether Postgres will pull a Redis, remembering Simon Riggs, built-in collation provider and C.UTF-8 in PG 17 and health checks. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/309-will-postgres-pull-a-redis/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss high availability's future, a custom sharding solution by Figma, sharding pg_vector queries, and PG17 logical replication failover. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/308-scale-through-sharding/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether we should be using bytewise or linguistic ordering by default, how to transform data in Postgres, benefits of a transaction_timeout and how to enforce join order. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/307-collation-conundrum/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss one configuration change that resulted in an 11,000 times faster query, why Postgres is not using your index, backported PG improvements and parallelism with TOAST. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/306-scalability-limits-from-slru-lock-manager/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss one configuration change that resulted in an 11,000 times faster query, why Postgres is not using your index, backported PG improvements and parallelism with TOAST. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/305-11k-faster-configuration-change/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new Postgres releases, performance comparisons between PgBouncer, PgCat and Supavisor, a new extension pg_analytics, and new planner capabilities in PG16. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/304-overhead-of-pg_stat_statements/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new Postgres releases, performance comparisons between PgBouncer, PgCat and Supavisor, a new extension pg_analytics, and new planner capabilities in PG16. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/303-pgbouncer-pgcat-supavisor-fight/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss when and how you should use UUIDs or not, how to optimize space with column order and arrays, whether it is better to tune parameters or queries and what devs should know about Postgres with Andrew Atkinson. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/302-uuid-vs-bigint-battle/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you can build a GPT in 500 lines of SQL code, how to optimize extension loading, the best way to set passwords and being able to change generated columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/301-postgres-llm-os-30-times-faster-index-builds/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you can build a GPT in 500 lines of SQL code, how to optimize extension loading, the best way to set passwords and being able to change generated columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/300-postgres-celebration/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you can build a GPT in 500 lines of SQL code, how to optimize extension loading, the best way to set passwords and being able to change generated columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/299-build-a-gpt-in-sql/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss hopes for Postgres in 2024, whether you need foreign keys, incremental backups, and five ways of doing not exists. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/298-10-100-times-higher-latency-with-distributed-postgres/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss hopes for Postgres in 2024, whether you need foreign keys, incremental backups, and five ways of doing not exists. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/297-postgres-in-2024/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the State of Postgres 2023 survey, a repository of Postgres how-tos, ways foreign keys can break and a custom SQL playground. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/296-state-of-postgres-2023/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a 30K messages per second queue built on Postgres, a zero downtime logical replication upgrade, the release of the Supavisor 1.0 connection pooler and PostGIS day. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/295-30k-messages-per-second-queue/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how much observability is needed, avoiding locks during database migrations, a huge Postgres events blogging event and FIPS mode. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/294-how-much-observability-is-needed/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how create statistics can help you get better plans, issues with subtransactions, all about extensions and best practices when indexing timestamps. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/293-better-plans-with-statistics/    

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using companion databases, multi-tenancy database design, whether SQL is good, and different transaction isolation levels. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/292-companion-databases/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Timescale's performance improvements from adding a query vectorization pipeline, doing blue-green deployments for databases, using reserved_connections and two improvements to null handling. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/291-2-to-4-times-faster-with-vectorization/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Postgres Performance Starter Kit, new releases of Postgres, removing JIT, and a lightweight message queue. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/290-postgres-releases-equals-reindexing/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new options for Postgres scheduling tools, proper ways to kill processes and explain usage. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/289-postgres-scheduling-opportunities/