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What's your actual background and expertise with Postgres and databases more broadly? Basically, do you actually know what you're doing, or is there likely a massive footgun you don't know or haven't shared with us?

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I spent a couple years managing a Postgres cluster with a petabyte of data. I wrote a couple blog posts from my work then[0][1]. I also wrote dozens of posts on the Postgres internals[2]. I've also given talks on how to generate fractals with SQL[3] and how to write a lisp interpreter in SQL[4].

[0] https://www.heap.io/blog/testing-database-changes-right-way

[1] https://www.heap.io/blog/analyzing-performance-millions-sql-...

[2] https://malisper.me/table-of-contents/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoYIvMFnoQ

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPSMH8w7nfw

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