Bare Metal Speed Postgres? | Scaling Postgres 442

In this episode, we examine how pgrust is designed to be as fast as possible, the advantages of UUIDv7 over UUIDv4, how to setup a multi-master cluster based upon regions and how to get rid of a 4 TB table.

Content Discussed

• Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine
• UUIDv4 vs UUIDv7
• Postgres logical replication beyond one writer
• Getting rid of a 4 TB table in PostgreSQL
• Multigres private alpha: automatic failover for Supabase Postgres
• Do We Still Have to Denormalize? Have Your Schema and Search It Too
• The hidden latency inside your database
• The 3 D's of software: distribution, distribution, distribution
• Is PostgreSQL Really Winning?
• CloudNativePG reaches CNCF Incubation: another rung on the ladder
• The “default” postgresql.conf
• PG Phriday: Burnt TOAST
• What your Postgres is waiting for, and why the dashboard can't tell you
• Postgres 19 REPACK: Faster, Built-In Table Bloat Cleanup
• Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault
• Introducing DBArena: open, reproducible benchmarks for hosted Postgres
• Can AI Write SQL?
• server closed the connection unexpectedly in PostgreSQL
• pg_vexec one month on: ahead of ClickHouse on Parquet, close behind on MergeTree
• Contributions for week 43
• Postgres Edinburgh October 2026 Meetup Recap
• Establishing the PostgreSQL Standard: PGConf.dev 2026 Part Two
• PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2026
• Sponsorships for Nordic PGDay 2027 Are Now Open
• Autonomous Postgres at PGConf.EU 2026: From Scripts to Self-Driving, and the Primitives in Between
• Navicat 18 Review: Is It Worth It for PostgreSQL? Tested on 10M Rows
• Building the Modern Enterprise Historian: TimescaleDB Enterprise Is Now in Public Beta
• One data key, many vaults: key management for PostgreSQL TDE
• Designing a planned switchover for minimum disruption
• Lakebase Postgres is built on object storage, but 99.99999% of reads never touch it
• Splitting the Read-Only Transaction: Replica Reads Inside an Open Transaction
• AI functions reach the SQL standard
• Wrapping up the AI team’s conference season

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