Subquery Performance, Avoid Update Locking, Column Changes, Outage Workshop

Scaling Postgres

Subquery Performance, Avoid Update Locking, Column Changes, Outage Workshop | Scaling Postgres 274

Jul 16 2023 | 00:14:40

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Show Notes

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss subquery performance, how to avoid excessive locking when doing updates, how to change a columns datatype without excessive locking and lessons from an upgrade outage.

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