Using Estimates and Autovacuum in Postgres for Performance

Nikolay and Michael discuss real-time analytics — what it means, what the options are, and some tips if you're trying to implement it within Postgres.
 
Here are links to a few things we mentioned: 

• Loose index scan / skip scan with recursive CTE (wiki)
• Zheap (wiki)
• cstore_fdw (now part of Citus)
• Timescale compression docs
• Hydra founders interview (on Postgres TV)
• Materialised views episode 
• pg_ivm
• Timescale continuous aggregates docs
• Clickhouse
• Snowflake
• Replication episode
• Timescale bottomless storage on S3 (blog post)
• pg_partman
• Querying Postgres from DuckDB (blog post)
• Heap blog (filter by “Engineering”)
• Incremental View Maintenance (wiki)
• PostgreSQL HyperLogLog  
• Faster counting (by Joe Nelson on the Citus blog)

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Postgres FM is brought to you by:

• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard

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• Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork