Reading Table Bloat Before It Reads You
Originally published on September 2, 2026. Written by John Shi. A Postgres table that has never run a single UPDATE can still carry 20% dead space. Bloat is taught as an update-and-delete problem, so

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Originally published on September 2, 2026. Written by John Shi. A Postgres table that has never run a single UPDATE can still carry 20% dead space. Bloat is taught as an update-and-delete problem, so

Originally published on September 1, 2026. Written by Ajay Kulkarni. There are still some fundamental truths that won't change. LLMs are making it dramatically easier to build software, so yes, we're

Originally published on August 28, 2026. Written by Damaso Sanoja. Cardinality is a consequence of how many dimensions you index your readings by. Here is where the curve bends, measured, and what you

Originally published on August 27, 2026. Written by Sven Klemm. A very common query against a time-series table is fetching the latest row for a device: SELECT * FROM metrics WHERE device = 'D001' ORD

Originally published on August 21, 2026. Written by NanoHertz Communications. Every EXPLAIN ANALYZE prints two numbers at the bottom, and most engineers read only one of them. Planning Time is how lon

Originally published on August 7, 2026. Written by NanoHertz Communications. Your slowest query is rarely your most expensive one. A 4-second report that runs twice a day costs your database 8 seconds
