PG Down Under show 5 on using pgNow to optimize PostgreSQL with guest Grant Fritchey is published!
I had the pleasure of recording a new PG Down Under podcast last night. My guest was Grant Fritchey.
Grant has worked in IT for more than thirty years, as a developer and a DBA and I’ve known him for many of those years. Grant is known for his writing, as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and an AWS Community Builder.
Grant is a product evangelist with our friends at RedGate.
This show
In this show, we check out Grant’s current role with our friends at RedGate , then discuss one of their free offerings pgNow .
I checked with Grant that it’s free, as in “free beer” that I often hear people say, and he assured me it is.
pgNow is an interesting product. The areas it focusses on are:
- Workload analysis
- Live sessions
- Indexing
- Settings review
- Vacuum health
It basically takes information that’s available within PostgreSQL clusters and makes it easy to work with. You could do it all yourself, but this tool makes it easy.
I hope you enjoy listening to the show.
You’ll find this show along with all PG Down Under shows here:
2025-08-27