Postgres FM

Plan flips

42:48

Nik and Michael discuss query plan flips in Postgres — what they are, some causes, mitigations, longer term solutions, and the recent outage at Clerk. Here are some links to things they mentioned:

Recent postmortem from Clerk https://clerk.com/blog/2026-02-19-system-outage-postmortem

The real cost of random I/O (blog post by Tomas Vondra)…