{"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":"max_connections vs migrations","slug":"max-connections-vs-migrations","published_at":"2025-12-05T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051/max-connections-vs-migrations","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/633a85e4","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/633a85e4/df289071.mp3","summary":"Nik and Michael discuss max_connections, especially in the context of increasing it to solve problems like migrations intermittently failing(!) Here are some links to things they mentioned: max_connections https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-connection.html#GUC-MAX-CONNECTIONS Tweet about deployments vs connections issue https://x.com/brankopetric00/status/1991394329886077090 Nik tweet in response https://x.com/samokhvalov/status/1991465573684027443 Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres (blog post by Andres Freund) https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/10/08/analyzing-connection-scalability/ Exponential Backoff And Jitter (blog post by Marc Brooker) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backoff-and-jitter/ ~~~ 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 max_connections, especially in the context of increasing it to solve problems like migrations intermittently failing(!) Here are s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2680,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/postgres-fm-5565051/episodes/max-connections-vs-migrations/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/max-connections-vs-migrations.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}