Description
Nikolay and Michael discuss connections — the options, security and performance tradeoffs, and a few other things to be aware of. Here are some links to some things they mentioned:
Episode on connection poolers https://postgres.fm/episodes/connection-poolers
listen_addresses https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-connection.html#GUC-LISTEN-ADDRESSES
SSLMODE Explained (blog post by Andrew Kane) https://ankane.org/postgres-sslmode-explained
pg_hba.conf https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
Timing a query (blog post by Bruce Momjian) https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2012.html#June_6_2012
How to connect (blog post by Lætitia Avrot) https://mydbanotebook.org/post/cant-connect/
Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots (blog post by Andres Freund) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/improving-postgres-connection-scalability-snapshots/ba-p/1806462
idle_session_timeout https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-IDLE-SESSION-TIMEOUT
Do you vacuum everyday? (talk by Hannu Krosing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcRi8Z7rkPg
Don’t use now() with pg_stat_activity (tweet by Nikolay) https://twitter.com/samokhvalov/status/1664981076014690304
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Postgres FM is brought to you by:
Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
With special thanks to:
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