A weekly podcast about all things PostgreSQL
186 episodes transcribedNik and Michael are joined by Radim Marek to discuss MVCC, including his recent article on how Postgres chose to implement it compared to oth...
Nik and Michael are joined by Tudor Golubenco, CTO of Xata, to discuss their architecture, progress, and open source tooling. Here are some l...
Nik and Michael are joined by Qian Li and Peter Kraft to talk about DBOS, an open source platform for durable workflows built on Postgres. H...
Nik and Michael are joined by Fabrízio Mello to discuss his new extension pg_stat_log.Here are some links to things they mentioned: Fabrízio...
Nik and Michael are joined by David Steele to talk all things pgBackRest. Here are some links to things they mentioned: David Steele https://...
Nik and Michael discuss autovacuum, including what it does, and the basics of why and how to tune it. Here are some links to things they men...
Nik and Michael are joined by David Ventimiglia to discuss pg_flight_recorder, a new tool he created for monitoring a Postgres database from...
Nik and Michael discuss Nik's new project PgQue, a descendent of Skype's PgQ, for running queue-like workloads in Postgres. Here are some lin...
Nik and Michael are joined by Dmitry Fomin to discuss his new tool pg_wait_tracer, as well as changes that could be made to core to allow wai...
Nik and Michael discuss a list of things to check when designing new schema in Postgres. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Use BIG...
Nik and Michael are joined by Bruce Momjian to discuss his new talk "What’s Missing in Postgres?" Here are some links to things they mentione...
Nik and Michael discuss long-running transactions, including when they're harmless, when they cause issues, and how to mitigate those issues....
Nik and Michael are joined by Regina Obe and Paul Ramsey to discuss PostGIS. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Regina Obe https://...
Nik and Michael discuss query plan flips in Postgres — what they are, some causes, mitigations, longer term solutions, and the recent outage...
Nik and Michael discuss pg_ash — a new tool (not extension!) from Nik that samples and stores wait events from pg_stat_activity. Here are som...
Nik and Michael discuss query level comments, object level comments, and another way of adding object level metadata. Here are some links to...
Nik and Michael are joined by Lev Kokotov for an update on all things PgDog. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Lev Kokotov https:/...
Nik and Michael are joined by Radim Marek from boringSQL to talk about RegreSQL, a regression testing tool for SQL queries they forked and im...
Nik and Michael discuss the events and trends they thought were most important in the Postgres ecosystem in 2025. Here are some links to thin...
Nik and Michael discuss a listener question about archiving a database. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Listener request to tal...
