Scaling Postgres
Scaling Postgres
Creston Jamison
Learn how to get the best performance and scale your PostgreSQL database with our weekly shows. Receive the best content curated from around the web. We have a special focus on content for developers since your architecture and usage is the key to getting the most performance out of PostgreSQL.
Episode 196 Easy Recursive CTE | Zheap Undo | High Availability | Loading Data
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss easily writing a recursive CTE, the zheap undo capability, high availability considerations and fast ways to load data.
Dec 19, 2021
17 min
Episode 195 Aurora vs. Postgres | Surprising Transactions | Write-Only & Read-Only | Indexing Advice
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Aurora vs. Postgres, surprising transaction behavior, write-only & read-only database connections and indexing best practices.
Dec 13, 2021
18 min
Episode 194 Go Faster | GIN Indexes | Collation Stability | PG14 & Beyond
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss going slower to go faster, GIN indexes, collation stability and features of PG14 and beyond.
Dec 10, 2021
16 min
Episode 193 Entity-Attribute-Value Design | JSON Subscripting | mysql-fdw Push-down | New Regex
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using entity-attribute-value designs, new JSON subscripting capabilities, the mysql-fdw support for aggregate pushdowns and new regex functions in PG 15.
Nov 28, 2021
9 min
Episode 192 Foreign Key Indexes | Graph Queries | Linux Huge Pages | Text Column Size
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss if foreign keys should have indexes, how to run graph queries, how to configure Linux huge pages and the benefits as well as text size similarities.
Nov 23, 2021
12 min
Episode 191 Man-In-The-Middle | pg_auto_failover | Lesser Known Features | LZ4 Compression
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new releases of Postgres due to a man-in-the-middle vulnerability, the high availability solution pg_auto_failover, lesser known Postgres features and LZ4 compression.
Nov 15, 2021
14 min
Episode 190 Hello Babelfish | Planner Deconstruction | Exist & Not Exist | Fun With SQL
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the open sourcing of Babelfish, deconstructing the Postgres planner, when to avoid exist & not exist and having fun with SQL.
Nov 8, 2021
12 min
Episode 189 Index Downsides | TCP Keep Alive | Development with Postgres | Learning PL/pgSQL
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the downsides of indexes, TCP keep alive options, developing with Postgres as your DB and learning PL/pgSQL.
Nov 1, 2021
15 min
Episode 188 Automatic Indexing | Function Pipelines | With Hold Cursors | Query Scans
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss automatic indexing, function pipelines, with hold cursors and the different query scans.
Oct 25, 2021
15 min
Episode 187 Sharding | Federation | Linux HugePages | Performance Tuning
In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss one method to shard a database, federating your database, the benefits of configuring linux HugePages and performance tuning.
Oct 17, 2021
15 min
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