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Episode 176
Nik and Michael are joined by Bruce Momjian to discuss his new talk "What’s Missing in Postgres?"
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11 hours ago
Long-running transactions
Episode 175
Nik and Michael discuss long-running transactions, including when they're harmless, when they cause issues, and how to mitigate those issues.
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1 week ago
PostGIS
Episode 174
Nik and Michael are joined by Regina Obe and Paul Ramsey to discuss PostGIS.
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3 weeks ago
Plan flips
Episode 173
Nik and Michael discuss query plan flips in Postgres — what they are, some causes, mitigations, longer term solutions, and the recent outage at Clerk…
4 weeks ago
pg_ash
Episode 172
Nik and Michael discuss pg_ash — a new tool (not extension!) from Nik that samples and stores wait events from pg_stat_activity.
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1 month, 2 weeks ago
Comments and metadata
Episode 171
Nik and Michael discuss query level comments, object level comments, and another way of adding object level metadata.
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1 month, 3 weeks ago
PgDog update
Episode 170
Nik and Michael are joined by Lev Kokotov for an update on all things PgDog.
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2 months, 1 week ago
RegreSQL
Episode 169
Nik and Michael are joined by Radim Marek from boringSQL to talk about RegreSQL, a regression testing tool for SQL queries they forked and improved r…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Postgres year in review 2025
Episode 168
Nik and Michael discuss the events and trends they thought were most important in the Postgres ecosystem in 2025.
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3 months ago
Archiving
Episode 167
Nik and Michael discuss a listener question about archiving a database.
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3 months, 2 weeks ago