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Episode 116
Nikolay and Michael discuss the fresh new Postgres 17 release! They cover several performance improvements, favourite new features, and some consider…
1 year, 6 months ago
Planning time
Episode 115
Nikolay and Michael discuss planning time in Postgres — what it is, how to spot issues, its relationship to things like partitioning, and some tips f…
1 year, 6 months ago
Slow count
Episode 114
Nikolay and Michael discuss why counting can be slow in Postgres, and what the options are for counting things quickly at scale.
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1 year, 6 months ago
Skip scan
Episode 113
Michael and Nikolay are joined by Peter Geoghegan, major contributor and committer to Postgres, to discuss adding skip scan support to PostgreSQL ove…
1 year, 6 months ago
Postgres Emergency Room
Episode 112
Nikolay and Michael discuss PostgreSQL emergencies — both the psychological side of incident management, and some technical aspects too.
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1 year, 7 months ago
Get or Create
Episode 111
Michael and Nikolay are joined by Haki Benita, a technical lead and database enthusiast who writes an excellent blog and gives popular talks and trai…
1 year, 7 months ago
Getting started with benchmarking
Episode 110
Michael and Nikolay are joined by Melanie Plageman, database internals engineer at Microsoft and major contributor and committer to PostgreSQL, to di…
1 year, 7 months ago
Index-Only Scans
Episode 109
Nikolay and Michael discuss Index-Only Scans in Postgres — what they are, how they help, some things to look out for, and some advice.
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1 year, 7 months ago
Why Postgres?
Episode 108
Nikolay and Michael discuss why they chose Postgres — as users, for their businesses, for their careers, as well as some doubts.
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1 year, 8 months ago
Compression
Episode 107
Nikolay and Michael discuss compression in Postgres — what's available natively, newer algorithms in recent versions, and several extensions with com…
1 year, 8 months ago