Key takeaways Speed is the wrong finish line. If moving the date by a week buys you a clean cutover, move it. Define success in numbers first: zero rows lost, a recovery time objective, a signed-off cutover window. Let the downtime budget…
PostgreSQL's max_files_per_process isn't a hard limit—it's a descriptor pool that quietly recycles old files when full.
PostgreSQL write amplification explained: why indexes multiply WAL volume, how to measure it on your tables, and four ways to reduce it without schema changes.
Logical replication has been part of Postgres since version 10, and the syntax page that governs it is almost comically brief. wants a name, a connection string, a list of publications, and then it offers one innocuous line:That single…