Podcast Episodes

Gadget'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 g…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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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 …

4 months ago

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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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4 months, 1 week ago

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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 …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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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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4 months, 3 weeks ago

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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 opt…

5 months ago

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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, functio…

5 months, 1 week ago

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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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5 months, 3 weeks ago

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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…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

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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 f…

6 months ago

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