What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
published on 2024/11/19
Except…Postgres. It’s not because the official docs aren’t stellar (they are!)–they’re just massive. For the current version (17 at the time of writing), if printed as a standard PDF on US letter-sized paper, it’s 3,200 pages long.1 It’s not something any junior engineer can just sit down and read start to finish.
So I want to try to catalog the bits that I wish someone had just told me before working with a Postgres database. Hopefully, this makes things easier for the next person going on a journey similar to mine.
This blog post has really good tips.