Show Notes
Nik and Michael discuss pg_ash — a new tool (not extension!) from Nik that samples and stores wait events from pg_stat_activity.
Here are some links to things they mentioned: pg_ash https://github.com/NikolayS/pg_ash pg_wait_sampling https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling Amazon RDS performance insights https://aws.amazon.com/rds/performance-insights Our episode on wait events https://postgres.fm/episodes/wait-events pg-flight-recorder https://github.com/dventimisupabase/pg-flight-recorder pg_profile https://github.com/zubkov-andrei/pg_profile pg_cron https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron
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