Read-only considerations

Nikolay and Michael discuss a listener request — special considerations for databases that are used in a read-only mode all day, and get an update at night with additional data.

Here are links to a few things we mentioned: 

• Index-only scans
• Vacuum
• UK Covid-19 dashboard
• pg_repack
• Partitioning
• Our episode on BRIN indexes
• Always load sorted data (blog post by Haki Benita)
• GIN indexes: the good and the bad (blog post by Lukas Fittl)
• Our episode on materialised views
• pg_buffercache
• Towards Millions TPS (blog post by Alexander Korotkov)
• Postgres WASM (by Snaplet and Supabase)
• Yugabyte
• AWS Aurora 
• Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery (docs)
• Our episode on checkpoint tuning
• Our episode on partitioning
• PgQ
• Neon branching
• Database Lab Engine
• Cluster

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