5mins of Postgres E58: Handling integer sequence overflow without downtime

Опубликовано: 27 Март 2026
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Today, I want to talk about the pg_stat_io view and the everyday DBA perspective on why it matters. We’ll go through tracking activity in Postgres with pg_stat_io and talk about getting insights into extends, evictions, reuses, and more.

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📑 What we have discussed in this episode of 5mins of Postgres:

The Integer at the End of the Universe: Integer Overflow in Postgres - by Jesse Soyland
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/the-...

Jesse Soyland on Twitter
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The Night the PostgreSQL IDs Ran Out - by Jake Swanson
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Jake Swanson on Twitter
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Rails 5.1: Default Primary Keys - by Jon McCartie
https://www.mccartie.com/tech/2016/12...

PostgreSQL zero-downtime migration of a primary key from int to bigint (with Ruby on Rails specific notes) - by Radan Skoric
https://engineering.silverfin.com/pg-...