They Enabled Postgres Partitioning and their Backend fell apart
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From the album The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Description
In a wonderful blog, Kyle explores the pains he faced managing a Postgres instance for a startup he works for and how enabling partitioning sigintfically created wait events causing the backend and subsequently NGINX to through 500 errors. We discuss this in this video/podcast https://www.kylehailey.com/post/postgres-partition-pains-lockmanager-waits