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Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoWhy mentor Postgres developers with Robert HaasNobody works on an open-source project forever—eventually, people move on. So of course today's Postgres contributors want to see more developers join the project, pick up the torch, and continue to make Postgres amazing. Hence the importance of mentorship. In this episode of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, PostgreSQL major contributor and committer Robert Haas shares how he learned the ropes in Postgres by channeling “what would Tom Lane do” during patch reviews; why he launched the new PostgreSQL Hackers Mentoring program; and the intellectually stimulating care and feeding it takes to make Postgres thrive.Link...2025-02-071h 26
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoHelping Rails developers learn Postgres with Andrew AtkinsonHave you ever achieved something remarkable because someone planted an idea in your mind? In this episode of Talking Postgres, host Claire Giordano talks with Andrew Atkinson—a Rails developer and Postgres user whose journey to becoming a published author began with a simple seed of inspiration. Andrew’s story started with an internal presentation on how to tackle tricky scalability challenges in Rails, grew into a Postgres conference talk at PGConf NYC—and ultimately evolved into his book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails. Also in this episode: what does cheese have to do with Postgres? Is writing a good w...2024-11-151h 34
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoHow I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with Tom LaneIt was not Tom Lane’s plan to become a computer person. Tom’s plan was to be a pinball machine designer. And yet for the last 26 years Tom has been one of the most prolific engineering contributors to Postgres. In this episode of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, PostgreSQL luminary Tom Lane walks us through how he got his start as a developer and in Postgres—including his time working on desktop calculators at HP. And how he has code running on Mars (and most of us don’t.) During Tom’s PhD studies at Carnegie Mellon, nobody told him d...2024-10-111h 39
Postgres FMPostgres 17Nikolay and Michael discuss the fresh new Postgres 17 release! They cover several performance improvements, favourite new features, and some considerations for upgrading. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Postgres 17 release notes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/release-17.htmltransaction_timeout episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/transaction_timeoutVACUUM improvements discussed towards end of episode with Melanie Plageman https://postgres.fm/episodes/getting-started-with-benchmarkingB-tree improvements discussed in episdode with Peter Geoghegan https://postgres.fm/episodes/skip-scanAs Rails developers, why we are excited about PostgreSQL 17 (blog post by Benoit Tigeot) https://benoittgt.github.io/blog/postgres_17_rails/ Real World Pe...2024-09-2742 min
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoBecoming a Postgres committer with Melanie PlagemanIf you could work on anything, would you quit your job to pursue it? Postgres committer and major contributor Melanie Plageman joined Claire Giordano on this episode of the Talking Postgres podcast (formerly Path To Citus Con) to share her story about becoming a Postgres committer. Melanie pivoted from IT consulting to open-source development, driven by her fascination with systems engineering and Postgres open source. What’s the secret to getting your patch committed? Feedback is a gift, but how willing are you to embrace it? How important is mentorship—and how important is it to ask for help? Even...2024-09-201h 22Postgres FMGetting started with benchmarkingMichael and Nikolay are joined by Melanie Plageman, database internals engineer at Microsoft and major contributor and committer to PostgreSQL, to discuss getting started with benchmarking — how it differs for users and developers of Postgres, how and when it comes up during development, some tools and lessons, as well as what she's working on at the moment. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Melanie Plageman https://postgres.fm/people/melanie-plagemanMeanie’s Introduction to Benchmarking With pgbench talk slides https://postgresql.us/events/pgconfnyc2023/schedule/session/1410-introduction-to-benchmarking-with-pgbench/#slidesMelanie’s Visualizing Postgres I/O Performance for Develop...2024-08-1656 min
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoHow I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with David RowleyEver wonder how driving a forklift at a cheese factory could lead to a career in databases? Postgres committer David Rowley joined Claire Giordano on this episode of the Talking Postgres podcast (formerly Path To Citus Con) to share his story about how he got started as a developer and in Postgres. Could an unexpected job lead to your dream career? Does speeding things up give you a buzz? How could an idea from a hike become a Postgres patch? And what is the importance of doing the research before you submit a proposal to the Postgres mailing list...2024-08-091h 29
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoPodcasting about Postgres with Pino de CandiaHave you ever eavesdropped on other people’s conversations? Former co-host Pino de Candia joins Claire Giordano on this episode of Talking Postgres (formerly Path To Citus Con) to share their experience on podcasting about Postgres. Is listening to a podcast the next best thing to being in the hallway track at a conference? Does it bring the community together? How beneficial has it been to have a parallel chat while recording live? What is the “sweet spot” for the number of guests to have per episode? Is structure important for a podcast? Also discussed: this podcast’s rename, a walk d...2024-07-121h 24
Hacking PostgresS2E8: Melanie Plageman, MicrosoftIn this episode, we talk Postgres committer Melanie Plagemean about her involvement with @PGConfdev, improvements to vacuum scheduling and auto vacuum configuration, the logical replication of DDL, and platforms such as CNCF and Kubernetes integrating with Postgres.Links mentioned:PGConf.devYouTube – CMU Database GroupPath To Citus Con Podcast@melanieplageman@mastodon.socialMelanie on X (@melanieplageman)2024-05-2336 min
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoMy Journey into Performance Benchmarking with Jelte Fennema-Nio & Marco SlotNo one likes benchmarking. But it can be one of the highest impact things you do. Jelte Fennema-Nio and Marco Slot joined Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia on this episode of Path To Citus Con* podcast for developers who love Postgres—to discuss their journeys into performance benchmarking. And how it can change the course of your career. Do you need to find bottlenecks in your Postgres? Do you want to build skills with database benchmarks? There are many lovely benchmarking tools in the Postgres world: HammerDB, pgbench, YCSB, BenchBase, perf, & more. And in addition to running benchmarks th...2024-01-121h 13Postgres FMPostgres 16Nikolay and Michael discuss the release of PostgreSQL 16 — the most important new features, what they mean for us as users, whether and when to upgrade, and more. Here are some links to some extra things they mentioned:Release notes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/release-16.htmlNew Features With Examples (PDF from Noriyoshi Shinoda of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Japan) https://h50146.www5.hpe.com/products/software/oe/linux/mainstream/support/lcc/pdf/PostgreSQL16Beta1_New_Features_en_20230528_1.pdf Why Upgrade? (site by depesz) https://why-upgrade.depesz.com/Waiting for PostgreSQL 16 (blog post series from Depesz) https://www...2023-09-2239 minPostgres FMOur favourite v16 featureNikolay 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/docs/16/release-16.htmlPGSQL Phriday #012 invitation from Ryan Booz https://www.pgsqlphriday.com/2023/08/pgsql-phriday-012/ Subscribe options for the podcast https://postgres.fm/subscribeA recent closed source ClickHouse feature https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/44767#issuecomment-1683293218 Postgres TV hacking session with Andrey Borodin on \watch with limited number of loops (v16) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTV8XhWf3mo Allow \watch queries to stop on minimum rows retu...2023-09-0827 min
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoHow I got started as a dev and in Postgres with Melanie Plageman & Thomas MunroIn this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Melanie Plageman, a PostgreSQL hacker working at Microsoft, and Thomas Munro, PostgreSQL developer and committer also at Microsoft talk with co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia. They talk through all the different ways they got started as developers. Does making your first patch to Postgres get you hooked for a lifetime? Do you have to be a tinkerer to be a good software engineer? What is the “toothbrush test”—and how do you make your avocation be your vocation? We hear stories about dropping out of school or dropped out of car...2023-07-061h 17
Talking Postgres with Claire GiordanoHow to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million usersJoin Claire and Pino as they talk with Citus and Postgres open source team members to explore how to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million users. What will future Postgres users look like? How will the Postgres development process evolve with more users? What are the common challenges faced by Postgres users? Citus open source team members Abdullah Ustuner and Burak Yucesoy are joined by Postgres open source teammates Melanie Plageman and Samay Sharma—and co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia—in this episode of Path To Citus Con*. Listen to the deep dive on wha...2023-07-031h 01Postgres FMContributing to PostgresHere are links to a few things we mentioned: PostgreSQL 14 coin (upside down!)Intro to Planner Hacking (talk by Melanie Plageman)Demystifying contributing to PostgreSQL (talk by Lætitia Avrot)How to become a PostgreSQL contributor (blog post by Aleksander Alekseev)Compile and install from source code (PostgreSQL Wiki)PostgreSQL mailing listsGitHub PostgreSQL mirrorGitLab PostgreSQL mirrorCommitfestsSo, you want to be a developer? (PostgreSQL Wiki)Resolving the search engine issue (mailing list thread)Planet PostgreSQLpg_stat_monitor (extension by Percona)ZomboDBpgx (framework for developing extensions)Awesome PostgresDepesz blog ------------------------What did you lik...2022-10-2833 min