Listen "Return of the BUFFERS"
Episode Synopsis
Nikolay and Michael return to the topic of BUFFERS for the third (and final?) time! They discuss the news that it'll be on by default with EXPLAIN ANALYZE in Postgres 18, and what effect that might have. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Our first BUFFERS episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/buffers-by-defaultOur second BUFFERS episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/buffers-ii-the-sequelBUFFERS enabled for EXPLAIN ANALYZE by default (commit for Postgres 18) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=c2a4078ebad71999dd451ae7d4358be3c9290b07https://explain.depesz.com/historyLatency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832Twitter conversation about flushing caches https://x.com/prochazkafilip/status/1881655337499205736pg_buffercache_evict https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgbuffercache.html#PGBUFFERCACHE-PG-BUFFERCACHE-EVICTHow to compare the quality of SQL query plans (blog post by Andrei Lepikhov) https://danolivo.substack.com/p/whose-optimisation-is-betterWe were added as PostgreSQL Contributors! https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/new-postgresql-contributors-3006~~~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 elephant artwork
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