Self-driving Postgres

Nikolay and Michael discuss self-driving Postgres — what it could mean, using self-driving cars as a reference, and ideas for things to build and optimize for in this area.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• Nikolay’s blog post on Self-driving Postgres postgres.ai/blog/20250725-self-driving-postgres
• SAE J3016 levels of driving automation sae.org/news/2019/01/sae-updates-j3016-automat…
• Oracle Autonomous Database oracle.com/uk/autonomous-database
• Self-Driving Database Management Systems (2017 paper) db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2017/p42-pavlo-cidr17.pdf
• PGTune pgtune.leopard.in.ua
• pg_index_pilot gitlab.com/postgres-ai/pg_index_pilot
• [Vibe] Hacking Postgres with Andrey, Kirk, Nik – index bloat, btree page merge youtube.com/watch?v=D1PEdDcvZTw

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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