Scaling Postgres

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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