A weekly podcast about all things PostgreSQL — by @michristofides and @samokhvalov. Also at https://t.co/lQaOt18aZ0postgres.fm 🎧 Podcast + 📺 YouTubeJoined July 2022
New episode: "pg_flight_recorder"
Nik and Michael are joined by David Ventimiglia to discuss pg_flight_recorder, a new tool he created for monitoring a Postgres database from within.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/pg_fl…
📺 youtu.be/UirSQIY8_M0
New episode: "PgQue"
Nik and Michael discuss Nik's new project PgQue, a descendent of Skype's PgQ, for running queue-like workloads in Postgres.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/pgque
📺 youtu.be/bBNcR14Ts4U
New episode: "pg_wait_tracer"
Nik and Michael are joined by Dmitry Fomin to discuss his new tool pg_wait_tracer, as well as changes to core that would allow wait event tracing with lower overhead (and on managed services).
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/pg_wa…
📺 youtu.be/efY85jwfcQ8
New episode: "Long-running transactions"
Nik and Michael discuss long-running transactions, including when they're harmless, when they cause issues, and how to mitigate those issues.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/long-…
📺 youtu.be/uSUpbUJM5Kk
New episode: "Plan flips"
Nik and Michael discuss query plan flips in Postgres — what they are, some causes, mitigations, longer term solutions, and the recent outage at Clerk.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/plan-…
📺 youtu.be/sjv_D18QwTs
New episode: "pg_ash"
Nik and Michael discuss pg_ash — a new tool (not extension!) from Nik that samples and stores wait events from pg_stat_activity.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/pg_ash
📺 youtu.be/uJ1LoZNCG_o
New episode: "Comments and metadata"
Nik and Michael discuss query level comments, object level comments, and another way of adding object level metadata.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/comme…
📺 youtu.be/D-xmGGuq-fM
New episode: "RegreSQL"
Nik and Michael are joined by Radim Marek from boringSQL to talk about RegreSQL, a regression testing tool for SQL queries (forked and improved).
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/regre…
📺 youtu.be/ygU8rXuqfsw
New episode: "Postgres year in review 2025"
Nik and Michael discuss the events and trends they thought were most important in the Postgres ecosystem in 2025.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/postg…
📺 youtu.be/CQ5Fr5uHEp0
New episode: "max_connections vs migrations"
Nik and Michael discuss max_connections, especially in the context of increasing it to solve problems like migrations intermittently failing(!)
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/max_c…
📺 youtu.be/KFRK8PiIvTg
New episode: "Tens of TB per hour"
Nik talks Michael through a recent benchmark he worked with Maxim Boguk on, to see how quickly they could provision a replica.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/tens-…
📺 youtu.be/ff-goIbd-Zk
New episode: "Gapless sequences"
Nik and Michael discuss the concept of gapless sequences — when you might want one, why sequences in Postgres can have gaps, and an idea or two if you do want them.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/gaple…
📺 youtu.be/3uIXr92GRWo
New episode: "LWLocks"
Nik and Michael discuss lightweight locks in Postgres — how they differ to (heavier) locks, some occasions they can be troublesome, and some resources for working out what to do if you hit issues.
🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/lwloc…
📺 youtu.be/DdQjvYHbIRU
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