{"podcast":{"title":"Postgres FM","slug":"postgres-fm-5565051","podcast_index_feed_id":5565051,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/postgres-fm","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/F-bi_aUNst-Ey8rEcRiURSNfKPb3cxsaDOvekkdqtR8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyMTQ3LzE3MTA3/OTEzODMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides","episode_count":184,"summary":"A weekly podcast about all things PostgreSQL","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T00:17:17.794402+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051"},"episode":{"title":"Disks","slug":"disks","published_at":"2025-08-29T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051/disks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/dabdc7fa","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/dabdc7fa/44bee692.mp3","summary":"Nik and Michael discuss disks in relation to Postgres — why they matter, how saturation can happen, some modern nuances, and how to prepare to avoid issues. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Nik’s tweet demonstrating a NOTIFY hot spot https://x.com/samokhvalov/status/1959468091035009245 Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (blog post by Recall ai) https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale track_io_timing https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-statistics.html#GUC-TRACK-IO-TIMING pg_test_timing https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgtesttiming.html PlanetScale for Postgres https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres Out of disk episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/out-of-disk 100TB episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/to-100tb-and-beyond Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 Fio https://github.com/axboe/fio ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork","meta_description":"Nik and Michael discuss disks in relation to Postgres — why they matter, how saturation can happen, some modern nuances, and how to prepare to avoid issue…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2773,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/postgres-fm-5565051/episodes/disks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051/disks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}