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Maintaining Large Tables in PostgreSQL | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 17, 2026 · Engineering Insights

PostgreSQL performance on large tables degrades silently through bloat, vacuum storms, and WAL explosion without proactive maintenance.

“performance doesn't break suddenly, it degrades silently over time”

A conference talk covers seven performance pitfalls when maintaining large PostgreSQL tables, including autovacuum bloat, vacuum/freeze storms, WAL volume explosion, and lock contention. It is a database engineering tutorial with no AI-industry signal.

postgresql database-performance autovacuum scaling

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