Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhen 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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11 months, 1 week ago
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 …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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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11 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
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…
1 year ago
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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1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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…
1 year, 1 month ago
Multi-tenant options
Episode 149
Nikolay and Michael are joined by Gwen Shapira to discuss multi-tenant architectures — the high level options, the pros and cons of each, and how the…
1 year, 1 month ago
Mean vs p99
Episode 148
Nikolay and Michael discuss looking at queries by mean time — when it makes sense, why ordering by a percentile (like p99) might be better, and the m…
1 year, 2 months ago