Postgres FM

A weekly podcast about all things PostgreSQL

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SQL vs NoSQL

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

Nikolay and Michael are joined by Franck Pachot to discuss SQL vs NoSQL — did Franck change teams by joining MongoDB, normalisation vs denorm...

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Return of the BUFFERS

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

Nikolay and Michael return to the topic of BUFFERS for the third (and final?) time! They discuss the news that it'll be on by default with EX...

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Reads causing writes

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

Nikolay and Michael discuss a couple of surprising ways read queries (selects) can cause writes (shared buffers dirtied) in Postgres. Here ar...

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NOT VALID constraints

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

Nikolay and Michael discuss adding constraints in an online fashion, using NOT VALID and then VALIDATE CONSTRAINT. Here are some links to thi...

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pg_squeeze

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

Michael and Nikolay are joined by Antonín Houska to discuss pg_squeeze — what it is, how it started, some of its features, and hopes of getti...

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pg_duckdb

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

Michael and Nikolay are joined by Joe Sciarrino and Jelte Fennema-Nio to discuss pg_duckdb — what it is, how it started, what early users are...

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RLS vs performance

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss Row Level Security in Postgres, focussing on the performance side effects and some tips to avoid (or minimize) th...

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jOOQ

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

Michael and Nikolay are joined by Lukas Eder, the creator of jOOQ, to discuss what it is, some nice developer experience features it has, and...

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Column Tetris

Episode Date: December 6, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss "Column Tetris" — what it is, why it matters, how to order columns for new tables, and how to re-organise existin...

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Append-only tables

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss append-only tables in Postgres — what they are, some unique challenges they bring, and some options for compressi...

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Denormalization

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss denormalization in Postgres — when and why to denormalize things, and a couple of specific cases Nikolay came acr...

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Advanced psql

Episode Date: October 25, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss some cool things you can do with psql, the official CLI that ships with Postgres. Here are some links to things t...

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Postgres Gotchas

Episode Date: October 18, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss some Postgres Gotchas, things you might expect to work one way in fact working another way. Here are some links t...

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Advanced EXPLAIN

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss some more advanced topics around EXPLAIN, including some tips for complex query plans, some recent improvements,...

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Patroni

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

Michael and Nikolay are joined by Alexander Kukushkin, PostgreSQL contributor and maintainer of Patroni, to discuss all things Patroni — what...

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Postgres 17

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss the fresh new Postgres 17 release! They cover several performance improvements, favourite new features, and some...

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Planning time

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

Nikolay and Michael discuss planning time in Postgres — what it is, how to spot issues, its relationship to things like partitioning, and som...