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PostgreSQL 19 expands MultiXactOffset to 64 bits, eliminating a real outage failure mode. So when do regular transaction IDs get the same treatment?
There's a category of Postgres performance issue that no amount of tuning will fix. Here's how to tell if you're already in it.
A PostgreSQL primary loses power at 2am. Writes resume in under thirty seconds. The on-call engineer reads the alert in the morning, sees that the cluster healed itself, and goes back to coffee. That is the outcome PostgreSQL high…
Three autovacuum parameters control how often PostgreSQL vacuums, how hard it works, and how long it pauses.