A couple months back I posted about maybe adjusting random_page_cost to better reflect how current storage handles random and sequential access. I had a bunch of great discussions about the topic since then, but ultimately I got distracted…

Naomi Saphra discusses 5 rules governing language model behavior, breaking down why LLMs act like populations rather than individuals. She explains how tokenization creates strange semantic blind spots and highlights the mechanics of…

Before starting, I want to put a few things at the top: You probably should not change the checkpoint_timeout setting from its default of 5 minutes. Users who read tuning advice on the internet (or get bad AI advice) about increasing this…
Diagnose index scan performance problems by temporarily disabling index scans or bitmap scans and measuring what the planner chooses instead.