Locks | Postgres.FM 145 | #PostgreSQL #Postgres podcast

[ 🇬🇧_🇺🇸 Check out the subtitles – we now edit them, ChatGPT+manually! You can also try YouTube's auto-translation of them from English to your language; try it and share it with people interested in Postgres!] Nikolay and Michael discuss heavyweight locks in Postgres — how to think about them, why you can't avoid them, and some tips for minimising issues. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Locking (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/curre... Postgres rocks, except when it blocks (blog post by Marco Slot) https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/0... Lock Conflicts (tool by Hussein Nasser) https://pglocks.org/ log_lock_waits (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/curre... How to analyze heavyweight lock trees (guide by Nikolay) https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgr... Lock management (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/curre... Our episode on zero-downtime migrations https://postgres.fm/episodes/zero-dow... ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know in the comments, or by tweeting us on @postgresfm   / postgresfm  , @samokhvalov   / samokhvalov   and @michristofides   / michristofides   ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai https://postgres.ai/ Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard https://pgmustard.com/ ~~~ This is the video version. Check out https://postgres.fm to subscribe to the audio-only version, to see the transcript, guest profiles, and more.