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by Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides

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Dump/restore done. Now what?

October 23, 2026 · 51 min

Nik is joined by Kirk Wolak, Software Architect at KiraSoft, to discuss what a database still needs after pg_restore finishes and before it takes production traffic — what pg_dump and pg_restore leave behind, why autovacuum may not catch…
Citus + StackGres

October 16, 2026 · 59 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Álvaro Hernández to discuss sharding Postgres with Citus and StackGres, especially the new query router support that has been added very recently. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Álvaro…
GSoC B-Tree Merge

September 25, 2026 · 49 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Salma El-Sayed and Kirk Wolak to discuss their in-progress and very ambitious Google Summer of Code project around adding Btree Merge support to Postgres. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Salma…
ClickHouse Managed Postgres

September 18, 2026 · 43 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Sai Srirampur to discuss ClickHouse's new managed Postgres service. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Sai Srirampur https://postgres.fm/people/sai-srirampurClickHouse Managed Postgres…
hot_standby_feedback

September 11, 2026 · 39 min

Nik and Michael discuss hot_standby_feedback — what it controls, whether and when read replicas should be changed to on, and other settings you can change to help too. Here are some links to things they mentioned: hot_standby_feedback…

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Estimating work_mem

August 21, 2026 · 50 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Shaun Thomas to discuss estimating work_mem, memory management in general, and writing an extension to help. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Shaun Thomas https://postgres.fm/p…
pgrust

August 14, 2026 · 35 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Michael Malis, co-creator of pgrust, to discuss their Postgres rewrite, including reliability problems, compatibility testing, faster analytics, and a new JIT-compiled query engine. Here are some links to…
MVCC

August 7, 2026 · 44 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Radim Marek to discuss MVCC, including his recent article on how Postgres chose to implement it compared to other systems. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Radim Marek https://…
Xata

July 31, 2026 · 46 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Tudor Golubenco, CTO of Xata, to discuss their architecture, progress, and open source tooling. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Tudor Golubenco https://postgres.fm/people/tudor-golubencoXata…
DBOS

July 24, 2026 · 39 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Qian Li and Peter Kraft to talk about DBOS, an open source platform for durable workflows built on Postgres. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Qian Li https://postgres.fm/people/qian-liPeter…
pg_stat_log

July 17, 2026 · 44 min

Nik and Michael are joined by Fabrízio Mello to discuss his new extension pg_stat_log. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Fabrízio Mello https://postgres.fm/people/fabrizio-de-royes-melloTimbira https://www.t…
pgBackRest

July 3, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

Nik and Michael are joined by David Steele to talk all things pgBackRest. Here are some links to things they mentioned: David Steele https://postgres.fm/people/david-steelepgBackRest https://pgbackrest.orgpg_basebackup…