What pg_ash is and its goals

Nik and Michael discuss pg_ash — a new tool (not extension!) from Nik that samples and stores wait events from pg_stat_activity.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned: 

• pg_ash https://github.com/NikolayS/pg_ash
• pg_wait_sampling https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling
• Amazon RDS performance insights https://aws.amazon.com/rds/performance-insights
• Our episode on wait events https://postgres.fm/episodes/wait-events
• pg-flight-recorder https://github.com/dventimisupabase/pg-flight-recorder
• pg_profile https://github.com/zubkov-andrei/pg_profile
• pg_cron https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

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• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork