Scaling Postgres

Scaling Postgres

Learn how to get the best performance and scale your PostgreSQL database with our weekly shows. Receive the best content curated from around the web. We have a special focus on content for developers since your architecture and usage is the key to getting the most performance out of PostgreSQL.

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December 21, 2025 16 mins

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss if vacuum is lying to you with regard to index cleanup, an agentic toolkit with MCP server, indexes getting corrupted after an upgrade and $50 Planetscale Metal.

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using Postgres queries in ClickHouse, faster faceted search, max_connections & migrations and different scan types.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/396-600-times-faster-analytics/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a patch that can plan joins 16 times faster, the best way to record text values, extensions via image volumes with CloudNativePG and using pg_partman vs rolling your own.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/395-16-times-faster-join-plans/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Black Friday / Cyber Monday course deal, the job security that LLMs provide, new Postgres releases and why you should hard your datbase.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/394-five-times-faster-aggregates/

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November 23, 2025 14 mins

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Black Friday / Cyber Monday course deal, the job security that LLMs provide, new Postgres releases and why you should shard your database.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/393-job-security/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss performance improvements related to skip scans, faster backup & restore, benefits of minimal indexes and more details about my upcoming course discount.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/392-100-times-faster-by-skipping/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the issues of partition locking during planning, the problem of too much memory, the importance of a txvector column and an upcoming sale on my course.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/391-table-lock-explosion/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how far Postgres can scale with queue and pub/sub workloads, temporal joins, IPC:SyncRep and nested partitioning.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/390-1.2-million-messages-per-second/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss ways to optimize reading or writing, the benefits of a descending index, more information about lightweight locks and a backup public service announcement.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/389-heavy-reader-or-writer/

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October 19, 2025 16 mins

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PG17 and PG18 benchmarks across storage types, more about Postgres locks, sanitizing SQL and can a faster software & hardware environment cause performance problems?

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/388-nvme-wins/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we explore how PG18 locking changes can boost planning performance, how to store data safely on a budget, how to build a parquet file archive solution and we discuss the completion of the summer of upgrades.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/387-boosting-planning-performance/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss additional Postgres 18 features, some future features for Postgres, how to use update with limit and how recent Ubuntu OS patches cause a Postgres restart.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/386-postgres-18-the-deep-cuts/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the release of Postgres 18 and cover different features such as asynchronous I/O, enhanced return from statements, parallel apply, adding not null as not valid and more!

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/385-postgres-18-released/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss getting excited about Postgres 18, oauth authentication, reconsidering your interface and a zero downtime upgrade.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/384-preparing-for-postgres-18/

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September 14, 2025 13 mins

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss free availability of an OrioleDB patent, pgEdge going open source, pg_duckdb hitting 1.0 and methods resolve to slow order by limit queries.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/383-orioledb-more-free/

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September 7, 2025 19 mins

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using a LLM as an agent, the importance of partitioned table statistics, PG 18 RC1, primary keys in sharded databases and a blue/green rollback.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/382-db-llm-agents/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss DocumentDB moving to the Linux Foundation, multi-column indexes, SCRAM pass-through and RDS Proxy oddities.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/381-documentdb-movement/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss enhancements to Oriole DB, new Postgres releases, a logging guide and application framework frustrations.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/380-storage-engine-progress/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss when you should reindex, how to handle case insensitive data, how to index jsonb and the top recommendations when doing performance optimizations.

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https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/379-unconventional-advice/

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Postgres getting a native column store via an index, faster btree_gift indexes, scaling listen/notify, and a logical replication slot deep dive.

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