Podcast Episodes

Time-Series Open Source Extension | Scaling Postgres 317

Episode 317

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a new time-series open source extension called pg_timeseries, Postgres ignoring indexes, JSONB selectivity issues, and geographically distributed multi…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

New Releases & 1,000 Times Faster Query | Scaling Postgres 316

Episode 316

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new Postgres releases, optimizing a query to be 1,000 times faster, custom vs. generic plans and the pgtt extension.

To get the show notes as well as g…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Hacking On Postgres is Hard! | Scaling Postgres 315

Episode 315

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how hacking on Postgres is hard, a notifier pattern for using Listen/Notify, using histograms for metrics and saturated arithmetic.

To get the show not…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

150 Times Faster pgvector? | Scaling Postgres 314

Episode 314

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss performance improvements for pgvector 0.7.0, a guide to vector embeddings, building a Retrieval Augmented Generation app and only allow logins to repli…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

The Future of MySQL is Postgres? | Scaling Postgres 313

Episode 313

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether the future of MySQL is Postgres, how to use recursive CTEs, work on OrioleDB, and PG17 performance improvements.

To get the show notes as well …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Postgres 17 Commit-orama | Scaling Postgres 312

Episode 312

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we cover potential features in Postgres 17 such as explain serialize, verbose copy, pg_buffer_cache_evict, as well as many others.

To get the show notes as well a…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

1,400 Times Faster Max & Group By Performance | Scaling Postgres 311

Episode 311

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a 1,400 times faster max and group by implementation, new quantization capabilities in pgvector, adaptive radix trees and splitting & merging partition…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Andres, Microsoft & Postgres Save Linux? | Scaling Postgres 310

Episode 310

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether Postgres will pull a Redis, remembering Simon Riggs, built-in collation provider and C.UTF-8 in PG 17 and health checks.

To get the show notes …

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Will Postgres Pull A Redis? | Scaling Postgres 309

Episode 309

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether Postgres will pull a Redis, remembering Simon Riggs, built-in collation provider and C.UTF-8 in PG 17 and health checks.

To get the show notes …

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Scale Through Sharding | Scaling Postgres 308

Episode 308

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss high availability's future, a custom sharding solution by Figma, sharding pg_vector queries, and PG17 logical replication failover.

To get the show not…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago