Database applications are living, [(sometimes) fire-]breathing systems that behave in unexpected ways. As a purveyor of the pgCraft, it’s important to understand how to interrogate a Postgres instance and learn about the workload. This is critical for lots of reasons: Understanding how the app is using the database Understanding what risks there are in theContinue reading “Tracking Postgres Stats”
Author Archives: Scott Mead
PgCraftsman
Scott Mead has been part of the Postgres community for the last 15 years and has seen it age from community project to serious enterprise RDBMS. Scott was the 5th employee at EnterpriseDB, a founding partner with OpenSCG and is now employed by Amazon Web Services as a Sr. Database Engineer. Seeing this community growContinue reading “PgCraftsman”
PgCraftsman 