When Continuous Ingestion Breaks Traditional Postgres

PostgreSQL

By Matty Stratton

min read

Mar 13, 2026

Postgres maintenance depends on quiet periods your continuous workload eliminated. Here's what happens inside the database when the gaps disappear.

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