Schema design checklist

Nik and Michael discuss a list of things to check when designing new schema in Postgres.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• Use BIGINT in Postgres (blog post by Ryan Lambert) blog.rustprooflabs.com/2021/06/postgres-bigint…
• Postgres 18 and UUIDv7 (blog post by Gwen Shapira) thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7
• How to use UUID (how-to guide by Nik) postgres.ai/docs/postgres-howtos/schema-design…
• Our episode on constraints postgres.fm/episodes/constraints
• Our episode on NULLs postgres.fm/episodes/nulls-the-good-the-bad-th…
• MultiXact member space exhaustion episode (with Metronome) postgres.fm/episodes/multixact-member-space-ex…
• Our Column Tetris episode postgres.fm/episodes/column-tetris
• Saving Space Basically for Free (blog post by James Coleman from Braintree) medium.com/paypal-tech/postgresql-at-scale-sav…
• Over-indexing episode postgres.fm/episodes/over-indexing
• Under-indexing episode postgres.fm/episodes/under-indexing
• Gadget's use of Postgres postgres.fm/episodes/gadgets-use-of-postgres
• Partitioning episode postgres.fm/episodes/partitioning
• RLS vs performance episode postgres.fm/episodes/rls-vs-performance

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Postgres FM is produced by:
• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard (pgmustard.com)
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai (postgres.ai)

With credit to:
• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork