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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…
2 years, 1 month ago
Postgres Emergency Room
Episode 112
Nikolay and Michael discuss PostgreSQL emergencies — both the psychological side of incident management, and some technical aspects too.
Here are som…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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.
Here are some …
2 years, 2 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.
Here are some links …
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Out of disk
Episode 106
Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres running out of disk space — including what happens, what can cause it, how to recover, and most importantly, how…
2 years, 3 months ago
Postgres startup ecosystem
Episode 105
Nikolay and Michael discuss the Postgres startup ecosystem — some recent closures, some recent fundraising announcements, and their thoughts on where…
2 years, 3 months ago
Four million TPS
Episode 104
Nikolay talks Michael through a recent experiment to find the current maximum transactions per second single-node Postgres can achieve — why he was l…
2 years, 3 months ago