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Postgres Conference 2025 | Scaling Postgres 358

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.

Postgres Best Practices? | Scaling Postgres 357

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.

Is the Future Immutable? | Scaling Postgres 356

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

Top Ten Analytics with pg_mooncake | Scaling Postgres 355

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.

Postgres & The US Treasury Attack | Scaling Postgres 354

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.

OLTP To Parquet For Analytics | Scaling Postgres 353

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.

You Can Always Optimize More | Scaling Postgres 352

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

Features To Avoid? | Scaling Postgres 351

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.

Seven Years of Scaling Postgres | Scaling Postgres 350

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.

The Dangers of Temporary Tables | Scaling Postgres 349

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.