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