Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGadget's use of Postgres
Episode 159
Nik and Michael are joined by Harry Brundage from Gadget to talk about their recent zero-downtime major version upgrade, how they use Postgres more generally, their dream database, and some challenge…
Published on 7 hours ago
turbopuffer
Episode 158
Nik and Michael are joined by Simon Eskildsen from turbopuffer — among other things, they discuss ANN index types, tradeoffs that can make sense for search workloads, and when it can make sense to mo…
Published on 1 week ago
When not to use Postgres
Episode 157
Nik and Michael discuss when not to use Postgres — specifically use cases where it still makes sense to store data in another system.
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Published on 2 weeks ago
Disks
Episode 156
Nik and Michael discuss disks in relation to Postgres — why they matter, how saturation can happen, some modern nuances, and how to prepare to avoid issues.
Here are some links to things they mention…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Multi-column indexes
Episode 155
Nik and Michael discuss multi-column indexes in Postgres — what they are, how to think about them, and some guidance around using them effectively.
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Published on 4 weeks ago
Self-driving Postgres
Episode 154
Nikolay and Michael discuss self-driving Postgres — what it could mean, using self-driving cars as a reference, and ideas for things to build and optimize for in this area.
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Published on 1 month ago
caSe-inSENsiTive
Episode 153
Nikolay and Michael discuss case-insensitive data — when we want to treat columns as case-insensitive, and the pros and cons of using citext, functions like lower(), or a custom collation.
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Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Monitoring from Postgres AI
Episode 152
Nikolay talks to Michael about Postgres AI's new monitoring tool — what it is, how its different to other tools, and some of the thinking behind it.
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Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
MultiXact member space exhaustion
Episode 151
Nikolay and Michael are joined by Andrew Johnson and Nate Brennand from Metronome to discuss MultiXact member space exhaustion — what it is, how they managed to hit it, and some tips to prevent runni…
Published on 2 months ago
Multigres
Episode 150
Nikolay and Michael are joined by Sugu Sougoumarane to discuss Multigres — a project he's joined Supabase to lead, building an adaptation of Vitess for Postgres!
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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago