{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Postgres FM","title":"Bloat","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2177,"description":"Michael is joined by Chelsea Dole, Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead of the Data Storage Team at Brex, to discuss bloat. They cover what it is, why it's a problem, strategies for minimising it, and the options when it's really bad. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Managing your tuple graveyard (talk by Chelsea) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAgbzvGT6ckpgstattuple https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstattuple.html pg_class https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalog-pg-class.html Bloat in PostgreSQL: a taxonomy (talk by Peter Geoghegan) https://youtube.com/watch?v=JDG4bMHxCH8 It's Not You, It's Me: Breaking Up with Massive Tables via Partitioning (talk by Chelsea) https://youtube.com/watch?v=TafwSuLNxe8 pg_repack https://github.com/reorg/pg_repackpg_squeeze https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_squeeze VACUUM https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-vacuum.htmlautovacuum https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-autovacuum.html CLUSTER https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-cluster.html HOT updates https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-hot.html Our episode on BUFFERS https://postgres.fm/episodes/buffers-by-default Our episode on TOAST https://postgres.fm/episodes/toast Our episode on index maintenance https://postgres.fm/episodes/index-maintenance Chelsea's website: https://chelseadole.com/~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is produced by:Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustardNikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NFbJlGhGV5mzIU1kM0iZ823A69pjZUNX40LszVO5LKI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyMTQ3LzE3MTA3/OTEzODMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}