Show Notes
Nik and Michael are joined by David Ventimiglia to discuss pg_flight_recorder, a new tool he created for monitoring a Postgres database from within.
Here are some links to things they mentioned: David Ventimiglia https://postgres.fm/people/david-ventimiglia pg_flight_recorder https://github.com/dventimisupabase/pg_flight_recorder Supabase https://supabase.com pg_wait_sampling https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling pg_ash https://github.com/NikolayS/pg_ash pg_cron https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron pg_tle https://github.com/aws/pg_tle
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