Invitation from Michael Christofides and summary post of all submissions
Believe it or not, we’re now eight months into this PGSQL Phriday thing and I couldn’t be happier with the community support. So many really smart, thoughtful, and community-minded folks learning from and helping one another! 🎉
This month, Michael Christofides of pgMustard is our host and he’s chosen pg_stat_statements as the topic.
I’m really excited for Michael to host this month because he’s been such an encouragement to me throughout my PostgreSQL journey. Not long after I started using PostgreSQL again full-time, I went looking for tools that could help me understand EXPLAIN output better. When I happened upon pgMustard, I didn’t just find a great tool, but a sincerely kind chap that continues to work (pretty silently) to help the PostgreSQL community in many ways. He’s one half of the weekly Postgres.fm podcast as well. Well worth a listen!
Check out the full invitation and “rules” for participating! I can’t wait to hear all of the ways folks are using pg_stat_statements to improve their usage of PostgreSQL!
The challenge from Michael
I picked pg_stat_statements as the topic for a few reasons! Firstly, I wanted a topic I could easily contribute a post on myself… but more importantly, I wanted one that people with all sorts of different backgrounds and experience levels could weigh in on. It’s also the most common answer to the question “What’s your favourite extension?” in Andreas’ excellent PostgreSQL Person of the Week series.
So, please feel free to take your post in any direction you want, as long as it has something to do with pg_stat_statements!