Scaling Postgres

Absorbing Load | Scaling Postgres 411

Creston Jamison — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss techniques to absorb excessive query load, BM25 text search via pg_textsearch, good & bad CTEs and plan_cache_mode.

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Postgres Traffic Cop! | Scaling Postgres 410

Creston Jamison — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a proprietary way of controlling Postgres query traffic, preserving statistics during upgrades, a DB schema migration survey and a new repack command.

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Iceberg Causes Postgres Acquisitions? | Scaling Postgres 409

Creston Jamison — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how Apache Iceberg may have lead to Postgres company acquisitions, presentations on CloudNativePG & query tuning, setting up Patroni and utilizing PgBouncer.

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Open Source Eating The World | Scaling Postgres 408

Creston Jamison — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how open source is eating the world, mitigating plan flips, migrating from Heroku to RDS, and how work_mem is a trap.

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Stable Plans? | Scaling Postgres 407

Creston Jamison — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the possibility of having stable plans in Postgres 19, settings to kill disconnected or crashed clients, on conflict do select and all about Patroni.

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Lock Causes Data To Vanish! | Scaling Postgres 406

Creston Jamison — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how a lock can cause data to vanish, new Postgres releases, fast replication with peerDB and pg_ash for wait sampling.

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Out of Cycle Releases | Scaling Postgres 405

Creston Jamison — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss an out of cycle Postgres release, a Supabase downtime incident, optimizing top K queries and how to maintain reading efficiency.

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Postmaster Does Not Scale! | Scaling Postgres 404

Creston Jamison — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how the postmaster does not scale, new Postgres releases, data storage using PAX and a path generation strategies change.

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Mitigate Retry Storms? | Scaling Postgres 403

Creston Jamison — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a potential way to mitigate retry storms or orphan DB sessions with client_connection_check_interval, checkpoint configuration, skip scans and more just use Postgres.

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Millions of QPS | Scaling Postgres 402

Creston Jamison — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how OpenAI's ChatGPT handles millions of queries per second, an update on PgDog, Clickhouse offers OLTP hosted Postgres and partition table source of truth.

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One Billion Vectors On Postgres | Scaling Postgres 401

Creston Jamison — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss searching one billion vectors on Postgres, how to bypass a vector index search, unconventional optimizations and a 40x boost to listen/notify performance.

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The Cost of Arrays | Scaling Postgres 400

Creston Jamison — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the cost of arrays, dealing with integer overflow, idle sessions causing transaction wraparound and AI or LLM index recommendations.

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Index Overhead? | Scaling Postgres 399

Creston Jamison — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the overhead of indexes, a Postgres year in review, an intro to row locking and table renaming issues.

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Latency Killing Performance? | Scaling Postgres 398

Creston Jamison — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we examine how latency impacts performance, naughty queries, bm25 indexes and how to quickly create database clones.

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Vacuum Is Lying To You? | Scaling Postgres 397

Creston Jamison — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss if vacuum is lying to you with regard to index cleanup, an agentic toolkit with MCP server, indexes getting corrupted after an upgrade and $50 Planetscale Metal.

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600 Times Faster Analytics | Scaling Postgres 396

Creston Jamison — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using Postgres queries in ClickHouse, faster faceted search, max_connections & migrations and different scan types.

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16 Times Faster Join Plans | Scaling Postgres 395

Creston Jamison — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a patch that can plan joins 16 times faster, the best way to record text values, extensions via image volumes with CloudNativePG and using pg_partman vs rolling your own.

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5 Times Faster Aggregates | Scaling Postgres 394

Creston Jamison — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Black Friday / Cyber Monday course deal, the job security that LLMs provide, new Postgres releases and why you should hard your datbase.

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Job Security? | Scaling Postgres 393

Creston Jamison — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Black Friday / Cyber Monday course deal, the job security that LLMs provide, new Postgres releases and why you should shard your database.

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100 Times Faster By Skipping! | Scaling Postgres 392

Creston Jamison — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss performance improvements related to skip scans, faster backup & restore, benefits of minimal indexes and more details about my upcoming course discount.

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Table Lock Explosion! | Scaling Postgres 391

Creston Jamison — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the issues of partition locking during planning, the problem of too much memory, the importance of a txvector column and an upcoming sale on my course.

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1.2 Million Messages Per Second | Scaling Postgres 390

Creston Jamison — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how far Postgres can scale with queue and pub/sub workloads, temporal joins, IPC:SyncRep and nested partitioning.

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Heavy Reader or Writer? | Scaling Postgres 389

Creston Jamison — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss ways to optimize reading or writing, the benefits of a descending index, more information about lightweight locks and a backup public service announcement.

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NVME Wins? | Scaling Postgres 388

Creston Jamison — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PG17 and PG18 benchmarks across storage types, more about Postgres locks, sanitizing SQL and can a faster software & hardware environment cause performance problems?

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Boosting Planning Performance | Scaling Postgres 387

Creston Jamison — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we explore how PG18 locking changes can boost planning performance, how to store data safely on a budget, how to build a parquet file archive solution and we discuss the completion of the summer of upgrades.

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Postgres 18: The Deep Cuts | Scaling Postgres 386

Creston Jamison — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss additional Postgres 18 features, some future features for Postgres, how to use update with limit and how recent Ubuntu OS patches cause a Postgres restart.

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Postgres 18 Released! | Scaling Postgres 385

Creston Jamison — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the release of Postgres 18 and cover different features such as asynchronous I/O, enhanced return from statements, parallel apply, adding not null as not valid and more!

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Preparing For Postgres 18 | Scaling Postgres 384

Creston Jamison — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss getting excited about Postgres 18, oauth authentication, reconsidering your interface and a zero downtime upgrade.

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OrioleDB More Free? | Scaling Postgres 383

Creston Jamison — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss free availability of an OrioleDB patent, pgEdge going open source, pg_duckdb hitting 1.0 and methods resolve to slow order by limit queries.

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DB LLM Agents? | Scaling Postgres 382

Creston Jamison — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using a LLM as an agent, the importance of partitioned table statistics, PG 18 RC1, primary keys in sharded databases and a blue/green rollback.

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DocumentDB Movement | Scaling Postgres 381

Creston Jamison — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss DocumentDB moving to the Linux Foundation, multi-column indexes, SCRAM pass-through and RDS Proxy oddities.

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Storage Engine Progress? | Scaling Postgres 380

Creston Jamison — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss enhancements to Oriole DB, new Postgres releases, a logging guide and application framework frustrations.

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Unconventional Advice? | Scaling Postgres 379

Creston Jamison — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss when you should reindex, how to handle case insensitive data, how to index jsonb and the top recommendations when doing performance optimizations.

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Native Column Store? | Scaling Postgres 378

Creston Jamison — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Postgres getting a native column store via an index, faster btree_gift indexes, scaling listen/notify, and a logical replication slot deep dive.

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Sharding At Network Speeds | Scaling Postgres 377

Creston Jamison — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how to shard your DB at network speeds, how to make your DB 42,000 slower, new monitoring and just enough text searching performance.

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100K Events Per Second Queue | Scaling Postgres 376

Creston Jamison — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a 100K events per second queue built on Postgres, how an MCP can leak your database, MultiXact ID and space overrun and struggles starting Postgres.

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All The Benchmarks | Scaling Postgres 375

Creston Jamison — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new benchmarks as a result of the Planetscale Postgres announcement, various platform improvements and a deep dive into Multigres.

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Migrating Millions Of Databases | Scaling Postgres 374

Creston Jamison — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how Jira migrated millions of databases, when sigterm does nothing, should you ditch vector search and mastering replication slots.

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Planetscale Postgres! | Scaling Postgres 373

Creston Jamison — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the release of Planetscale Postgres and the advantages for bare metal, how often queries are optimal, avoiding UUIDv4 and the summer of upgrade report.

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The Future of Postgres Architecture | Scaling Postgres 372

Creston Jamison — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss some possible futures for Postgres architectures, choosing a multi-tenancy model, vectors in the new SQL standard and one way to perform a blue-green deployment rollback in AWS RDS.

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Are You Hurting Your Performance? | Scaling Postgres 371

Creston Jamison — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you use the database can impact its performance, performance of pg_search, fast uploads and some downsides of different upgrade methods.

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New Scale Out Options | Scaling Postgres 370

Creston Jamison — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the start of Multigres which is a Vitess for Postgres, pgactive going open source, getting started with logical replication and a summer of upgrades.

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Move Off Of RDS? | Scaling Postgres 369

Creston Jamison — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss why and how you could move off of AWS RDS, Snowflake acquires Crunchy Data, reducing your SQL queries and a novel way to migrate to partition tables.

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4 Times Faster UUID Primary Keys | Scaling Postgres 368

Creston Jamison — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the benefits of using time-based UUIDv7 vs UUIDv4 for primary keys, how OpenAI uses Postgres, handling locks and methods to migrate to partition tables with low downtime.

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How Often Does That Query Run? | Scaling Postgres 367

Creston Jamison — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a Postgres VS code extension, service definition files, undead tuples and the benefits of finding out how often a query is run.

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20,000 Times Faster Order By Limit | Scaling Postgres 366

Creston Jamison — Sun, 18 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a top ten dangerous Postgres issues list, importing and exporting statistics, more Postgres 18 beta features and a 20,000 times faster query by fixing an order by limit issue.

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Here Comes Async I/O! | Scaling Postgres 365

Creston Jamison — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss async I/O introduced in PG 18 Beta 1, new Postgres releases, PgDog performance and innovative ways to optimize queries.

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Scaling For High Volume | Scaling Postgres 364

Creston Jamison — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss scaling for high volume, why workflows should be Postgres rows, a planner gotcha and ways to resolve planner issues.

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Optimizing For Time-Series Data | Scaling Postgres 362

Creston Jamison — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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A Roadmap To Scaling Postgres | Scaling Postgres 361

Creston Jamison — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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Handle One Million Connections? | Scaling Postgres 360

Creston Jamison — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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Trillions of Rows & Metrics | Scaling Postgres 359

Creston Jamison — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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Postgres Conference 2025 | Scaling Postgres 358

Creston Jamison — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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Postgres Best Practices? | Scaling Postgres 357

Creston Jamison — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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Is the Future Immutable? | Scaling Postgres 356

Creston Jamison — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss immutability and Postgres, the upcoming Postgres Conference in Orlando, extended statistics and usage of default partitions.

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Top Ten Analytics with pg_mooncake | Scaling Postgres 355

Creston Jamison — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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Postgres & The US Treasury Attack | Scaling Postgres 354

Creston Jamison — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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OLTP To Parquet For Analytics | Scaling Postgres 353

Creston Jamison — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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You Can Always Optimize More | Scaling Postgres 352

Creston Jamison — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you can always optimize more, avoiding deadlocks, casting & indexes and pg_hint_plan best practices.

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Features To Avoid? | Scaling Postgres 351

Creston Jamison — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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Seven Years of Scaling Postgres | Scaling Postgres 350

Creston Jamison — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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The Dangers of Temporary Tables | Scaling Postgres 349

Creston Jamison — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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The Future Is Containers? | Scaling Postgres 348

Creston Jamison — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether the future of containers and Postgres, UUIDv7 commit, and a pg_duckdb interview.

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Easy Incremental Data Processing? | Scaling Postgres 347

Creston Jamison — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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Things I Don't Do In Postgres | Scaling Postgres 346

Creston Jamison — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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Over 5X Faster Postgres? | Scaling Postgres 345

Creston Jamison — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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Performance & Hard Things | Scaling Postgres 344

Creston Jamison — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new releases, collation speed, ZFS performance, insert benchmarking and pglz vs. lz4 performance.

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Postgres Release Warning! | Scaling Postgres 343

Creston Jamison — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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Faster Writes With ZFS? | Scaling Postgres 342

Creston Jamison — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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The Future of Postgres Upgrades | Scaling Postgres 341

Creston Jamison — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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Do You Need A Vectorizer? | Scaling Postgres 340

Creston Jamison — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

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.

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Postgres Goes Parquet | Scaling Postgres 339

Creston Jamison — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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JSON Goodies In Postgres 17 | Scaling Postgres 338

Creston Jamison — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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77 Times Faster In Postgres 17 | Scaling Postgres 337

Creston Jamison — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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Postgres 17 Released! | Scaling Postgres 335

Creston Jamison — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:00:00 +0000

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.

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Optimizing For Analytics | Scaling Postgres 334

Creston Jamison — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:00:00 +0000

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.