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Adding a 5-row lookup table to a 9-table billing query flips the plan from 0.3ms nested loops to 467ms hash joins. The cause is join_collapse_limit = 8, a default Postgres has shipped since 2005. SQL Server and MySQL don't have this cliff.…
Key takeaways A routine OS patch can take Postgres offline even when Postgres itself was never touched. Here’s what rolling OS patching on a proper HA cluster changes: OS-level patches (kernel, glibc, container runtime, storage driver) can…
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 shipped on August 13, 2026, and the release notes have been filled in as of 2026-07-18 — still marked subject to change, and the GA date isn’t announced yet, but following the project’s usual September/October cadence…
Brian Martin discusses the real-world performance costs of metrics libraries and shares strategies for low-overhead, "fearless" instrumentation. Drawing from his work at IOP Systems, he explores atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding,…