Show Notes
Nik and Michael are joined by Salma El-Sayed and Kirk Wolak to discuss their in-progress and very ambitious Google Summer of Code project around adding Btree Merge support to Postgres.
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
Salma El-Sayed https://postgres.fm/people/salma-el-sayed Kirk Wolak https://postgres.fm/people/kirk-wolak Google Summer of Code https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com PostgreSQL GSoC 2026 project ideas https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2026 CMU Intro to Database Systems https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjYMAgsGH-GtY5rJYZ6zjsd5 Kirk, NIK, and Andrey’s Hacking Postgres sessions on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH8y1BNPAKjKDdJA7sDmFWUkbbYux3TRz B-tree Index Bloat Reduction - Approach & Questions (Hackers thread, with patches) https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CANBEAPFq3YAOydjUS3xwcUG9L6e3WE5Z4nGPk_Q3RsjSFWTJNA%40mail.gmail.com B-tree merge visualizer https://kirkw.github.io/explainers/btree-merge-explainer.html
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