In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a top ten dos and don't for Postgres, understanding statistics and extended statistics, aligning columns to reduce padding and how to handle disaster recovery. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/363-top-ten-postgres-dos-and-do…

In this episode, we discuss optimizing for time-series data, indexing vectors, Postgres APT extension packaging and how to optimize queries involving low cardinality data columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/362-optimizing-for-time-series-data/ Want to learn more abo…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a roadmap to scaling Postgres, life altering Postgres patterns, making Postgres better with OrioleDB, performance cliffs and efficient use of foreign keys. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/361-roadmap-to-scaling-postgres/ Wa…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how a new tool pgDog might allow one million client connections to Postgres, novel use cases for pgvector other than semantic search, don't expose port 5432 and Postgres on Kubernetes. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/360-ha…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we talk about indexes being added to Timescale's column store, processing 1 trillion metrics in Timescale, processing 1 trillion rows in Citus and partitions for deletion use cases. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/359-trillions-of-row…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, I discuss my experience attending Postgres Conference 2025 and cover some of the highlights of the conference. Interestingly, at least from my perspective, the most well attended talks seemed to cover pg_vector, analytics involving duckdb and partitioning. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new epi…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss best practices, caching monitoring statistics, a new vector extension called VectorChord and the importance of monitoring wait events. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/357-postgres-best-practices/ Want to learn more about Po…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss immutability and Postgres, the upcoming Postgres Conference in Orlando, extended statistics and usage of default partitions. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/356-is-the-future-immutable/ Want to learn more about Postgres per…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how Postgres & pg_mooncake achieves top ten Clickbench results, a comparison of Oracle and Postgres transactions, sharding to scale and connection counts. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/355-top-ten-analytics-with-pg_moonca…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the role of Postgres in the US Treasury online attack, new releases of Postgres, optimizing application of streaming changes and a query that filled a databases disks. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/354-postgres-us-treasur…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how data can flow from your OLTP to parquet files for analytics, parallel queries, view inlining and partitioning advice. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/353-oltp-to-parquet-for-analytics/ Want to learn more about Postgres …

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you can always optimize more, avoiding deadlocks, casting & indexes and pg_hint_plan best practices. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/352-you-can-always-optimize-more/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join …

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we talk about some features you may want to avoid like commit_delay, index_cleanup off, & logon triggers, a way to detect a table rewrite and a zero downtime upgrade. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/351-features-to-avoid/ Want to lear…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss our seven year anniversary, better pg_search performance, reducing table locks, not valid constraints and better group by statistics. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/350-seven-years-of-scaling-postgres/ Want to learn more a…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the dangers of temporary tables, better transparent data encryption, pig the extension wizard, and table level lock considerations. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/349-the-dangers-of-temporary-tables/ Want to learn more abo…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether the future of containers and Postgres, UUIDv7 commit, and a pg_duckdb interview. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/348-the-future-is-containers/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training cal…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the new pg_incremental extension for processing data pipelines, a set of Postgres monitoring queries, handling alter table retries and large object dump performance. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/347-easy-incremental-data…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss things I do not do such as use default partitions, play column Tetris, ELT using special data types or create 7+ millions tables in a database. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/346-things-i-do-not-do-in-postgres/ Want to lea…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss OrioleDB getting Postgres over 5 times faster, historical OLAP performance, efficient queries and whether you should us track_planning. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/345-over-5x-faster-postgres/ Want to learn more about P…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new releases, collation speed, ZFS performance, insert benchmarking and pglz vs. lz4 performance. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/344-performance-hard-things/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE trai…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new Postgres releases and an out-of-band release to address issues, increasing insert performance by 2X, pg_search benchmarks and fast OpenStreetMap loading. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/343-postgres-release-warning/ Wan…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the read and write performance of Postgres on ZFS, handling URL text identifiers in the database, denormalization and a new pgvector release. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/342-faster-writes-with-zfs/ Want to learn more ab…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the future of Postgres upgrades, the usefulness of pg_dump, partitioning with minimal downtime and limitless Aurora. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/341-the-future-of-postgres-upgrades/ Want to learn more about Postgres per…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether you need a vectorizer, different ways to bin or bucket timestamps, addressing a bad plan and advanced psql. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/340-do-you-need-a-vectorizer/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss pg_parquet allowing Postgres to read and write parquet files, other useful extensions, open source bounties, and Postgres gotchas. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/339-postgres-goes-parquet/ Want to learn more about Postgres…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the JSON goodies in Postgres 17, trigger recursion, pg_dump as backup and pg_timeseries columnar performance. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/338-json-goodies-in-postgres-17/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? J…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how one query runs 77 times faster in Postgres 17, a detailed Postgres 17 performance webinar, using logical replication fail over slots and a discussion on Patroni. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/337-77-times-faster-in-po…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss more about the features released with Postgres 17, an example of performance improvements, things to watch out for, and the start of Postgres 18. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/336-more-postgres-17-highlights/ Want to lear…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the release of Postgres 17, b-tree performance gains, logical replication enhancements and different levels of performance tuning. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/335-postgres-17-released/ Want to learn more about Postgres …

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how to optimize your database for analytics, how to speed up counts, improvements to TimescaleDB and why you should stop using serial. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/334-optimizing-for-analytics/ Want to learn more about P…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss when select can write, Postgres RC1 is released, Tetris in SQL and copy, swap, drop. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/333-when-select-writes/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FREE training called Postgr…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss what can happen when queries get slow, backup best practices, Postgres emergencies and the state of Postgres survey. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/332-sometimes-it-is-slow/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? J…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether pg_dump is a backup tool, the pgMonitor extension, Postgres malware, and application uses for the merge command. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/331-is-pg_dump-a-backup-tool/ Want to learn more about Postgres perfor…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the merging of Postgres and DuckDB via the pg_duckdb extension, how this can help the analytics story for Postgres, some ways to improve PG analytics and building a search engine. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/330-splicin…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PGlite, an embeddable Postgres, postgres.new which adds AI features, new Postgres releases and the performance of synchronous replication. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/329-pglite-embeddable-postgres/ Want to learn more a…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss different get or create implementations, a new pgBouncer version, alter default privileges, and six degrees of separation with Postgres. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/328-implement-get-or-create/ Want to learn more about …

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using Postgres for graph queries, the fastest way to copy data from one table to another, dealing with linux memory overcommit and compression. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/327-postgres-graph-queries/ Want to learn more …

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we talk about speeding up index creation, extensions to track wait events, a row pattern recognition feature and savepoints. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/326-faster-index-creation/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Joi…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss more ways to keep the superior performance of keyset pagination, how to implement UUIDv7 in SQL functions, how expensive extended statistics are and the benefits of range columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/325-faster-…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss experiments to achieve four million transaction per second, the importance of extended statistics, parallelism in Postgres and an introduction to window functions. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/324-four-million-tps/ Want …

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a breaking change in the new version of PgBouncer, PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2 is released, examination of the new built-in collation provider in PG 17 and Notion's data lake. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/323-pgbouncer-breaking…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss an incremental sort instability issue with the Postgres planner, whether we should use foreign keys, how the visibility map works and how to vacuum the template0 database. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/322-postgres-sort-i…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the shutdown of Ottertune, how schema changes cause locks and how to avoid them, the benefits of on conflic do nothing, and pgvectorscale. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/321-ottertune-is-dead/ Want to learn more about Post…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss three organizations scaling their databases to 100 TB and beyond, collation speed, configuring memory and new AI extensions To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/320-100tb-and-beyond/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a time when Postgres development stopped, two new extensions pg_lakehouse & pg_compare and the upcoming event Posette. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/319-when-postgres-development-stoppped/…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss all the new features in Postgres 17 Beta 1, some features that did not make it, database collations & sorting and causes of slow commits. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/318-postgres-17-beta-1-released/…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a new time-series open source extension called pg_timeseries, Postgres ignoring indexes, JSONB selectivity issues, and geographically distributed multi-tenant applications. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/317-time-series-op…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new Postgres releases, optimizing a query to be 1,000 times faster, custom vs. generic plans and the pgtt extension. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/316-new-releases-1000-times-faster-query/…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how hacking on Postgres is hard, a notifier pattern for using Listen/Notify, using histograms for metrics and saturated arithmetic. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/315-hacking-on-postgres-is-hard/…

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss performance improvements for pgvector 0.7.0, a guide to vector embeddings, building a Retrieval Augmented Generation app and only allow logins to replicas. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/314-150-times-faster-pgvector/…