Episode Details

Nik and Michael discuss a list of things to check when designing new schema in Postgres.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Use BIGINT in Postgres (blog post by Ryan Lambert) https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2021/06/postgres-bigint-by-default
• Postgres 18 and UUIDv7 (blog post by Gwen Shapira) https://www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7
• How to use UUID (how-to guide by Nik) https://postgres.ai/docs/postgres-howtos/schema-design/data-types/how-to-use-uuid
• Our episode on constraints https://postgres.fm/episodes/constraints
• Our episode on NULLs https://postgres.fm/episodes/nulls-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-unknown
• MultiXact member space exhaustion episode (with Metronome) https://postgres.fm/episodes/multixact-member-space-exhaustion
• Our Column Tetris episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/column-tetris
• Saving Space Basically for Free (blog post by James Coleman from Braintree) https://medium.com/paypal-tech/postgresql-at-scale-saving-space-basically-for-free-d94483d9ed9a
• Over-indexing episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/over-indexing
• Under-indexing episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/under-indexing
• Gadget's use of Postgres https://postgres.fm/episodes/gadgets-use-of-postgres
• Partitioning episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/partitioning
• RLS vs performance episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/rls-vs-performance

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With credit to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork