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Thoughts on software engineering, web development, technology, books, personal growth, and more.

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PostgreSQL Internals

A series on understanding what is really happening under the hood of postgreSQL

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Monthly Books Summary

A series on monthly summary of the books I read in that month

August 2026

Vacuum - PostgreSQL way of clearing it's Debt
Reading PostgreSQL
August 8, 2026·10 min readNew

Vacuum - PostgreSQL way of clearing it's Debt

Vacuum in PostgreSQL helps reclaiming the space occupied by dead tuples. Here in this blog, we discusses about how Vacuum do in PostgreSQL internally.

PostgreSQL
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PGSourceCode
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Vacuum - PostgreSQL way of clearing it's Debt

July 2026

What I read in July 2026
Monthly Books Summary
July 31, 2026·2 min read

What I read in July 2026

Summary about the books I read in July 2026

Books
Personal
102
What I read in July 2026
PostgreSQL Internals - Module 9: Replication
PostgreSQL Internals
July 17, 2026·12 min read

PostgreSQL Internals - Module 9: Replication

Final blog post of the PostgreSQL Internals series explaining about Replication and it's type i.e., Physical and Logical Replication.

PostgreSQL
Technical
PGInternals
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PostgreSQL Internals - Module 9: Replication

June 2026

What I read in June 2026
Monthly Books Summary
June 28, 2026·2 min read

What I read in June 2026

Summary about the books I read in the month ofJune 2026

Books
Personal
163
What I read in June 2026
PostgreSQL Table Statistics: When, Where, and How They're Calculated
Reading PostgreSQL
June 22, 2026·7 min read

PostgreSQL Table Statistics: When, Where, and How They're Calculated

Understand and Learn about the PostgreSQL Table's Statistics and in-depth code walkthrough

PostgreSQL
Technical
PGSourceCode
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PostgreSQL Table Statistics: When, Where, and How They're Calculated
June 17, 2026·3 min read

Will I Ever Go Out?

Yes, I go out. But there's a catch.

Personal
Thoughts
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TableAmRoutine - your way of integrating a custom storage engine into PostgreSQL
Reading PostgreSQL
June 13, 2026·6 min read

TableAmRoutine - your way of integrating a custom storage engine into PostgreSQL

Learn how TableAmRoutine works under the hood and use it to plug your custom storage engine into PostgreSQL without touching the core.

PostgreSQL
Technical
PGSourceCode
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TableAmRoutine - your way of integrating a custom storage engine into PostgreSQL
June 5, 2026·9 min readPopular

Building a Local PostgreSQL Internals Assistant - Zero API Costs

Local PostgreSQL internals assistant - semantic search over PG source via pgvector + Ollama, exposed as MCP tools in Zed and VSCode. Free, offline, zero API costs.

Technical
Artificial Intelligence
LLM
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May 2026

What I read in May 2026
Monthly Books Summary
May 31, 2026·2 min read

What I read in May 2026

Summary about the books I read in the month of May 2026

Books
Personal
121
What I read in May 2026
pg_ext_memcheck - The memory bug detector that speaks PostgreSQL
Projects
May 29, 2026·7 min read

pg_ext_memcheck - The memory bug detector that speaks PostgreSQL

A PostgreSQL extension that catches MemoryContext leaks, wrong-context allocations, and shmem overruns — from inside the backend.

Technical
Project
162
pg_ext_memcheck - The memory bug detector that speaks PostgreSQL

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