They Enabled Postgres Partitioning and their Backend fell apart
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
English - June 24, 2023 05:20 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In a wonderful blog, Kyle explores the pains he faced managing a Postgres instance for a startup he works for and how enabling partitioning sigintfically created wait events causing the backend and subsequently NGINX to through 500 errors.
We discuss this in this video/podcast
https://www.kylehailey.com/post/postgres-partition-pains-lockmanager-waits