A weekly podcast about all things PostgreSQL
Postgres FM
Claim This Podcastby Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
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A weekly podcast about all things PostgreSQL
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Recent Episodes
May 29, 2026
autovacuum
Michael Christofides and Nikolay Samokhvalov explore autovacuum's function and basic tuning strategies for PostgreSQL.
May 15, 2026
pg_flight_recorder
Host Michael Christofides and Host Nikolay Samokhvalov interview David Ventimiglia about his new pg_flight_recorder tool for internal Postgres database monitoring.
May 8, 2026
PgQue
<p>Nik and Michael discuss Nik's new project PgQue, a descendent of Skype's PgQ, for running queue-like workloads in Postgres.<br> <br>Here are some links to things they mentioned: </p><ul><li>Our first episode on Queues in Postgres <a href="https://postgres.fm/episodes/queues-in-postgres">https://postgres.fm/episodes/queues-in-postgres</a></li><li>PgQue <a href="https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque">https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque</a></li><li>HN discussion <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817349">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817349</a></li><li>PgQ <a href="https://github.com/pgq/pgq">https://github.com/pgq/pgq</a></li><li>pgmq <a href="https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq">https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq</a></li><li>River <a href="https://riverqueue.com">https://riverqueue.com</a></li><li>Keeping a Postgres queue healthy (blog post by Simeon Griggs / PlanetScale) <a href="https://planetscale.com/blog/keeping-a-postgres-queue-healthy">https://planetscale.com/blog/keeping-a-postgres-queue-healthy</a></li><li>Postgres Job Queues & Failure By MVCC (blog post by Brandur) <a href="https://brandur.org/postgres-queues">https://brandur.org/postgres-queues</a></li><li>My queries to monitor autovacuum (blog post by Laurenz Albe) <a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/monitor-autovacuum-my-queries/">https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/monitor-autovacuum-my-queries/</a></li><li>SELECT FOR UPDATE considered harmful (blog post by Laurenz Albe) <a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/select-for-update-considered-harmful-postgresql/">https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/select-for-update-considered-harmful-postgresql/</a></li><li>Christophe Pettus blog post <a href="https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/05/03/pgque-two-snapshots-and-a-diff">https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/05/03/pgque-two-snapshots-and-a-diff</a></li><li>Our episode on pg_ash <a href="https://postgres.fm/episodes/pg_ash">https://postgres.fm/episodes/pg_ash</a></li><li>Rediscovering PgQ (Alexander Kukushkin slides) <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/cyberdemn/rediscovering-pgq">https://speakerdeck.com/cyberdemn/rediscovering-pgq</a></li><li>Tick frequency tuning <a href="https://github.com/NikolayS/PgQue/blob/main/docs/tick-frequency.md">https://github.com/NikolayS/PgQue/blob/main/docs/tick-frequency.md</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>~~~</p><p>What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on <a href="https://postgres.fm/people">social media,</a> or by commenting on <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PNGSn_d0A7gTR4C0p6geQyHOTgdpitKCRvafCNnT-44/edit#heading=h.v4ncheatetql">our Google doc</a>!</p><p><br>~~~</p><p>Postgres FM is produced by:</p><ul><li>Michael Christofides, founder of <a href="https://pgmustard.com/">pgMustard</a></li><li>Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of <a href="https://postgres.ai/">Postgres.ai</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>With credit to:</p><ul><li>Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork</li></ul>
181 total episodes available with 99 transcripts
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