
Postgres FM
Hosted by Michael Christofides and Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael and Nik and Nik Samokhvalov · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
4.9from 74 ratings
- 191
- Episodes
- 112
- Transcribed
- 74
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Postgres FM
A weekly podcast about all things PostgreSQL
- Publisher
- Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
- Category
- news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 Jul 2022
- Latest episode
- 25 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
112 of 191 episodes have a transcript.

25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
GSoC B-Tree Merge

18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
ClickHouse Managed Postgres

11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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GSoC B-Tree Merge
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Everyone's trying to do it quickly. We need to do it slowly. And if we make the change slowly, then it's possible to do. What's the benefit? Postgres ends up with self-healing indexes. That's how I refer to them. As you naturally, in fact, where does this cleanup belong? It belongs in vacuum and the delete code. When you delete records, it just marks them as deleted. When you actually remove them from there and you leave a page mostly empty, that's the logic we're writing, and they're going to be able to put that right back in the vacuum and say, oh, let's push these tuples over here onto this very empty page already, and let's start the unlink process. […]
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- Salma El-Sayed
- Kirk Wolak
- Sai Srirampur
- Shaun Thomas
- Michael Malis
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 22 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 52 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100
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- Quality
- 82
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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Who hosts Postgres FM?
Michael Christofides and Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael and Nik and Nik Samokhvalov host the show. Published by Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides.
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