
Designing and implementing a monitoring feature in PostgreSQL
Presenters Rahila Syed Source PGConf.dev 2025 🚀 Diving Deep: On-Demand Dynamic Statistics in PostgreSQL 💾 PostgreSQL, the powerhouse behind countless databases, is constantly evolving. Recently, a fascinating new feature has been developed: the ability to retrieve on-demand dynamic statistics about process memory usage. This isn’t your average database metric – it’s a deep dive into how PostgreSQL manages memory, and it’s surprisingly complex! Let’s break down what this means, why it’s important, and what’s under the hood. ...