Postgres FM

Nikolay and Michael discuss their favourite feature each from the upcoming PostgreSQL 16 release. Here are some links to some things they mentioned:v16 draft release notes https://www.postgresql.org/d...

8 Sep 202327min

Nikolay and Michael discuss connections — the options, security and performance tradeoffs, and a few other things to be aware of. Here are some links to some things they mentioned:Episode on connectio...

1 Sep 202328min

Nikolay and Michael discuss a listener question — about products that take Postgres and transform it to something that decouples compute from storage (RDS Aurora, GC AlloyDB, Neon etc.) and whether th...

25 Aug 202342min

Nikolay and Michael discuss self-managing Postgres — both the practicalities of doing so, as well as some managed-service style tooling.  Here are some links to some things they mentioned:Our episode ...

18 Aug 202337min

Nikolay and Michael discuss sharding Postgres — what it means, why and when it's needed, and the available options right now.  Here are some links to some things they mentioned:PGSQL Friday monthly bl...

11 Aug 202339min

Nikolay and Michael discuss data types in PostgreSQL — including system types, choosing between types, types provided by extensions, and more.  Here are some links to some things they mentioned:Data T...

4 Aug 202337min

Nikolay and Michael discuss HA (high availability) — what it means, tools and techniques for maximising it, while going through some of the more common causes of downtime.  Here are some links to some...

28 Jul 202340min

Nikolay and Michael discuss 10 beginner tips Nikolay recently shared — they go into a bit more detail on each, and even disagree a little on one or two!  Here are some links to some things they mentio...

21 Jul 202340min