Shaun Thomas: Burnt TOAST

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Planet PostgreSQL at 30 Oct, 16:04 UTC

A financial firm hired me in 2010 to revise their Postgres cluster architecture. During my stint there, I learned a healthy respect for their event_log table. But perhaps “respect” is the wrong word here, as it was more of a deep loathing. This table, you see, was the canonical ledger of system…