A weekly podcast about all things PostgreSQL
143 episodes transcribedNikolay and Michael discuss append-only tables in Postgres — what they are, some unique challenges they bring, and some options for compressi...
Nikolay and Michael discuss denormalization in Postgres — when and why to denormalize things, and a couple of specific cases Nikolay came acr...
Nikolay and Michael discuss online Postgres communities — the ones they prefer, the types of conversations in each, and some other places to...
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...
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...
Nikolay and Michael discuss some more advanced topics around EXPLAIN, including some tips for complex query plans, some recent improvements,...
Michael and Nikolay are joined by Alexander Kukushkin, PostgreSQL contributor and maintainer of Patroni, to discuss all things Patroni — what...
Nikolay and Michael discuss the fresh new Postgres 17 release! They cover several performance improvements, favourite new features, and some...
Nikolay and Michael discuss planning time in Postgres — what it is, how to spot issues, its relationship to things like partitioning, and som...
Nikolay and Michael discuss why counting can be slow in Postgres, and what the options are for counting things quickly at scale. Here are som...
Michael and Nikolay are joined by Peter Geoghegan, major contributor and committer to Postgres, to discuss adding skip scan support to Postgr...
Nikolay and Michael discuss PostgreSQL emergencies — both the psychological side of incident management, and some technical aspects too. Here...
Michael and Nikolay are joined by Haki Benita, a technical lead and database enthusiast who writes an excellent blog and gives popular talks...
Michael and Nikolay are joined by Melanie Plageman, database internals engineer at Microsoft and major contributor and committer to PostgreSQ...
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 a...
Nikolay and Michael discuss why they chose Postgres — as users, for their businesses, for their careers, as well as some doubts. Here are som...
Nikolay and Michael discuss compression in Postgres — what's available natively, newer algorithms in recent versions, and several extensions...
Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres running out of disk space — including what happens, what can cause it, how to recover, and most importan...
Nikolay and Michael discuss the Postgres startup ecosystem — some recent closures, some recent fundraising announcements, and their thoughts...
Nikolay talks Michael through a recent experiment to find the current maximum transactions per second single-node Postgres can achieve — why...
