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Episode 66
In this episode (recorded live on YouTube), Nikolay discusses Postgres shutdown and startup times – how to troubleshoot them and, when needed, optimi…
2 years, 5 months ago
Backups
Episode 65
Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres backups — why we need them, what the options are, whether a dump is a backup or not, and some considerations for…
2 years, 6 months ago
Postgres 16
Episode 64
Nikolay and Michael discuss the release of PostgreSQL 16 — the most important new features, what they mean for us as users, whether and when to upgra…
2 years, 6 months ago
Logical replication
Episode 63
Nikolay and Michael discuss logical replication — some history, initialization, change data capture, how to scale it, some limitiations, and ways tha…
2 years, 6 months ago
Our favourite v16 feature
Episode 62
Nikolay and Michael discuss their favourite feature each from the upcoming PostgreSQL 16 release.
Here are some links to some things they mentioned:
2 years, 6 months ago
Connections
Episode 61
Nikolay and Michael discuss connections — the options, security and performance tradeoffs, and a few other things to be aware of.
Here are some links…
2 years, 7 months ago
Decoupled storage and compute
Episode 60
Nikolay and Michael discuss a listener question — about products that take Postgres and transform it to something that decouples compute from storage…
2 years, 7 months ago
Self-managing
Episode 59
Nikolay and Michael discuss self-managing Postgres — both the practicalities of doing so, as well as some managed-service style tooling.
Here are so…
2 years, 7 months ago
Sharding
Episode 58
Nikolay and Michael discuss sharding Postgres — what it means, why and when it's needed, and the available options right now.
Here are some links to…
2 years, 7 months ago
Data types
Episode 57
Nikolay and Michael discuss data types in PostgreSQL — including system types, choosing between types, types provided by extensions, and more.
Here …
2 years, 7 months ago