Scaling Postgres

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you can build a GPT in 500 lines of SQL code, how to optimize extension loading, the best way to set passwords and being able to change generated columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/301-postgres-llm-os-30-times-faster-index-builds/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you can build a GPT in 500 lines of SQL code, how to optimize extension loading, the best way to set passwords and being able to change generated columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/300-postgres-celebration/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how you can build a GPT in 500 lines of SQL code, how to optimize extension loading, the best way to set passwords and being able to change generated columns. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/299-build-a-gpt-in-sql/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss hopes for Postgres in 2024, whether you need foreign keys, incremental backups, and five ways of doing not exists. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/298-10-100-times-higher-latency-with-distributed-postgres/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss hopes for Postgres in 2024, whether you need foreign keys, incremental backups, and five ways of doing not exists. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/297-postgres-in-2024/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the State of Postgres 2023 survey, a repository of Postgres how-tos, ways foreign keys can break and a custom SQL playground. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/296-state-of-postgres-2023/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a 30K messages per second queue built on Postgres, a zero downtime logical replication upgrade, the release of the Supavisor 1.0 connection pooler and PostGIS day. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/295-30k-messages-per-second-queue/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how much observability is needed, avoiding locks during database migrations, a huge Postgres events blogging event and FIPS mode. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/294-how-much-observability-is-needed/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how create statistics can help you get better plans, issues with subtransactions, all about extensions and best practices when indexing timestamps. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/293-better-plans-with-statistics/    

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using companion databases, multi-tenancy database design, whether SQL is good, and different transaction isolation levels. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/292-companion-databases/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Timescale's performance improvements from adding a query vectorization pipeline, doing blue-green deployments for databases, using reserved_connections and two improvements to null handling. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/291-2-to-4-times-faster-with-vectorization/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Postgres Performance Starter Kit, new releases of Postgres, removing JIT, and a lightweight message queue. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/290-postgres-releases-equals-reindexing/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new options for Postgres scheduling tools, proper ways to kill processes and explain usage. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/289-postgres-scheduling-opportunities/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss index corruption from a ICU collation change, another caveat for PgBouncer prepared statements, ways to version data, and using Postgres as a cache. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/288-index-corruption-from-icu-collation-change/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how the new version of pgbouncer could get you 15% to 250% faster query throughput, the availability of using kubernetes snapshots for backup and restore with CloudNativePg and Ruby on Rails Postgres improvements. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/287-15-250-percent-faster-query-throughput/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a new extension that promises substantially faster text search and ranking, an AI content storm, how to work with money and the fastest way to stop Postgres. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:   https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/286-20-times-faster-text-search-ranking/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we cover a deep dive into indexes from a presentation that includes a decision tree of sorts, how to convert to partitioned tables once you have hundreds of millions of rows and detail about the new pg_stat_io view. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/285-indexing-deep-dive/  

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss whether something is 23 times faster or 1.1 times faster. We also discuss the release of Timescale Vector and whether you can build a queue on Postgres. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/284-23-or-1-times-faster-performance/  

To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/283-222-times-faster-analytical-queries-with-columnar-storage/ In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how to get 222 times faster analytical queries with columnar storage, a Postgres 16 feature review, the birth of a feature and fuzzy search.

To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit:  https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/282-postgres-16-released-postgres-meme-file-vs-base64-strings-intelligent-sharding/ In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the release of Postgres 16, a Postgres meme, storing files or base64 strings and sharding intelligently.