Denormalization
Nikolay and Michael discuss denormalization in Postgres — when and why to denormalize things, and a couple of specific cases Nikolay came across recently.
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
Here are some links to things they mentioned:
- Denormalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormalization
- Our episode on materialized views https://postgres.fm/episodes/materialized-views
- Our episode on data model trade-offs https://postgres.fm/episodes/data-model-trade-offs
- Our episode with Markus Winand https://postgres.fm/episodes/modern-sql
- Universal Relation Data Modelling Considered Harmful (blog post by Michael Stonebraker and Álvaro Hernández) https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/universal-relation-data-modelling-considered-harmful
- Boyce–Codd normal form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce%E2%80%93Codd_normal_form
- Our episode on slow count https://postgres.fm/episodes/slow-count
- pg_ivm https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm
- denorm https://github.com/rivethealth/denorm
- Postgres Materialized Views, The Timescale Way (blog post by David Kohn) https://www.timescale.com/blog/materialized-views-the-timescale-way/
- PgQ https://github.com/pgq/pgq
- Databases, types, and the relational model (by C.J. Date and Hugh Darwen) https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf
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What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!
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- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
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