Episodes on how best to scale your PostgreSQL relational database.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Postgres upgrade struggles, how and why to use hyperloglog, using pgbouncer for session vs. transaction pooling, and methods to scale Postgres.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss faster COPY in Postgres 16, how to use psql variables, the importance of backup_label and issues with bad character encoding.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the release of PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1, creating Rust functions with PL/Rust, memory problems related to partitioning and prepared statements, and modeling tags with arrays.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new Postgres releases, EDB Postgres Distributed, a privilege template and real-time dashboards.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss different ways to use pg_stat_statements, how to handle transaction ID wraparound, consultant knowledge and all the videos of CitusCon.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the worst part of Postgres, the status of pluggable storage, what makes a busy system and methods for managing different data architectures.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss LZ4 and ZSTD pg_dump compression, how to avoid problems, can triggers simplify and indexes can hurt.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the pg_failover_slots extension, how PG16 allows logical decoding on standbys, what are trusted language extensions and how a package manager has been built for them.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how to easily create a foreign data wrapper to consume an API, present a convenient JSONB cheatsheet, changes to updating the vacuum cost limit and new parallel aggregates.
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PL/Rust 1.0 release, row locks, Postgres errors and the new SQL 2023 standard.