PostgreSQL 15's archive_library lets you skip shell overhead and handle WAL archiving in-process, but major backup tools haven't adopted it yet—stick with…

`archive_command` is PostgreSQL's durability linchpin: a one-line shell command that must handle partial writes, timeline divergence, and error semantics…

Clean up WAL archives on standby servers—but only if you're certain no other standbys or backup tools need those files. Otherwise, skip this parameter entirely.

Huge pages are a second configuration step that most people skip, but they're essential for any Postgres instance with serious shared_buffers.

Snowflake's pg_lake and Databricks' Lakebase both bridge Postgres and the lakehouse, but they solve different problems.

Set application_name in every connection string. It's the cheapest observability win PostgreSQL offers—one GUC that makes 2am debugging actually possible.

Linux 7.0 doesn't halve Postgres throughput—but a 96-vCPU benchmark without huge pages does.

PostgreSQL 19 brings self-tuning worker pools and read-ahead improvements to async I/O, plus EXPLAIN ANALYZE (IO) to finally see what's happening under the…

A GUC with a dire warning: `allow_system_table_mods` lets superusers edit PostgreSQL's system catalogs, and the docs say it can cause irretrievable data loss.

Hiring a PostgreSQL consultant without giving them database access defeats the purpose.