Podcast Episodes

Sponsoring the community

Episode 99

Michael is joined by Claire Giordano, Head of Postgres Open Source Community Initiatives at Microsoft, to discuss several ways to contribute to the P…

1 year, 7 months ago

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Full text search

Episode 98

Nikolay and Michael discuss full text search in Postgres — some of the history, some of the features, and whether it now makes sense to try to replac…

1 year, 7 months ago

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Minor releases

Episode 97

Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres minor releases — how the schedule works, options for upgrading to them, and the importance of reading the releas…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Custom vs generic plan

Episode 96

Nikolay and Michael discuss custom and generic planning in prepared statements — how it works, how issues can present themselves, some ways to view t…

1 year, 8 months ago

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LIMIT vs Performance

Episode 95

Nikolay and Michael discuss LIMIT in Postgres — what it does, how it can help with performance, and an interesting example where adding it can actual…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Buffers II (the sequel)

Episode 94

Nikolay and Michael return to the topic of using the buffers explain parameter — with a new analogy, some (conspiracy) theories of why it's still not…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Massive DELETEs

Episode 93

Nikolay and Michael discuss doing massive DELETE operations in Postgres — what can go wrong, how to prevent major issues, and some ideas to minimise …

1 year, 8 months ago

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Logical replication common issues

Episode 92

Nikolay and Michael are joined by Sai Srirampur, CEO and Co-founder of PeerDB, to discuss how to overcome several logical replication issues. They di…

1 year, 9 months ago

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Don't do this

Episode 91

Nikolay and Michael discuss several "Don't do this" lists about Postgres — picking out their favourite items, as well as some contentious ones that c…

1 year, 9 months ago

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Search

Episode 90

Nikolay and Michael have a high-level discussion on all things search — touching on full-text search, semantic search, and faceted search. They discu…

1 year, 9 months ago

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