What’s Missing in Postgres?

From Postgres FM by Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides

April 3, 2026 · 44 min · Episode 176

About this episode

Nik and Michael discuss what's missing in Postgres with guest Bruce Momjian.

Nik and Michael are joined by Bruce Momjian to discuss his new talk "What’s Missing in Postgres?" Here are some links to things they mentioned: Bruce Momjian https://postgres.fm/people/bruce-momjian EDB https://www.enterprisedb.com What’s Missing in Postgres? (Bruce’s slides) https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/missing.pdf The Wonderful World of WAL (Bruce’s slides) https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/wal.pdf Getting started with benchmarking (our episode with Melanie Plageman) https://postgres.fm/episodes/getting-started-with-benchmarking Myths and Truths about Synchronous Replication in Postgres (talk by Alexander Kukushkin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFn9qRGzTMc The Future of Postgres Sharding (Bruce’s slides) https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sharding.pdf MultiXact member space exhaustion https://postgres.fm/episodes/multixact-member-space-exhaustion ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nikolay Samokhvalov, Michael Christofides

Guest: Bruce Momjian

Topics covered

Postgres
database technology
benchmarking
replication
sharding

Keywords

Postgres
Bruce Momjian
database
benchmarking
replication
sharding
WAL

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EDB

Books & works: What’s Missing in Postgres?, The Wonderful World of WAL, Getting started with benchmarking, Myths and Truths about Synchronous Replication in Postgres, The Future of Postgres Sharding, MultiXact member space exhaustion