pgBackRest Is Dead? | Scaling Postgres 415

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the notice of obsolescence for pgBackRest, the open source environment in general, queries to monitor autovacuum and pg_wait_tracer.

Content Discussed

• pgBackRest Github Repository
• pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
• Notice of Obsolescence
• pgBackRest is archived, what now?
• Open source doesn’t die. It gets unfunded.
• PostgreSQL Ecosystem Problems
• Why the cycle of open-source sustainability needs to be virtuous
• Why sell the idea of contributing to PostgreSQL to your employer
• My queries to monitor autovacuum
• pg_wait_tracer
• Parallel Autovacuum: It’s Not About The CPU
• RLS sounds great until it isn't
• HOT Updates in Postgres
• Permissive by Choice, Permanent by Accident
• Understanding Bitmap Heap Scans in PostgreSQL
• Troubleshooting logical replication delay made easy
• Managed Postgres, Examined: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
• The Monday Elephant #1: pgweb
• The Monday Elephant #2: SQL Queries to List Users and Groups
• AIO Grows Up
• REPACK Moves In
• Online Checksums Are Not Instant
• Retail DDL Arrives, One Function at a Time
• All Your GUCs in a Row: array_nulls
• All Your GUCs in a Row: archive_timeout
• All Your GUCs in a Row: archive_mode
• All Your GUCs in a Row: archive_library
• All Your GUCs in a Row: archive_command
• All your GUCs in a Row: archive_cleanup_command
• Optimization vs. Architecture: Knowing the Difference
• The best PostgreSQL databases are boring on purpose
• PostgreSQL, Timezones, and DBeaver
• PostgresEDI April 2026 Meetup Recap & May Lightning Talks
• PG DATA 2026: The talks I am most excited about. Part 1
• Contributions for week 16, 2026
• Balance Relational Purity and Speed in High Frequency Systems
• From 6 Seconds to Under 100ms: How the Embodied Carbon Observatory Separates Grid Improvement From Real Decarbonization With Tiger Data
• Simulate production load using Neon branching and k6
• Introducing the OSSCAR Index
• DSQL SQL Dialect: How Amazon Aurora DSQL differs from single-instance PostgreSQL
• How Kajabi optimized costs with Amazon Aurora upgrades

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