Working on Postgres after 13 years on SQL Server with Panagiotis Antonopoulos | Talking Postgres E41
What happens when a database engineer spends 13 years on SQL Server and then starts working on Postgres? In Episode 41 of Talking Postgres, Distinguished Engineer Panagiotis “Panos” Antonopoulos of Microsoft joins Claire to share what surprised him most about making that transition. We explore why Postgres felt familiar from the start—and what shocked Panos about the clean and lean Postgres codebase. We also dig into how public mailing lists and AI can help explain why design decisions were made, why more people are asking “why not Postgres?”, and the shared-storage architecture behind Azure HorizonDB.Chapters:
⏩ 00:00 Intro & music
⏩ 06:55 I had never seen the place
⏩ 17:35 It feels extremely familiar
⏩ 23:54 In databases, trust is a huge thing
⏩ 24:28 Committers doing PM jobs as well
⏩ 29:39 What surprised me in Postgres
⏩ 35:24 How I’m using AI tools in my job
⏩ 47:38 Postgres work on HorizonDB
⏩ 1:06:19 Business need & personal interest
📜 Full transcript available at: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/working-on-postgres-after-13-years-on-sql-server-with-panagiotis-antonopoulos/transcript
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Previously on Talking Postgres:
🔹 Talking Postgres podcast Ep 39 with Adam Prout: https://youtu.be/dsyWz6tcfh0?si=KkqnRuHLCNJ767OK
🔹 Talking Postgres podcast Ep 38 with Gwen Shapira: https://youtu.be/g4NqAf7w-0I?si=8iUy7jwEFjv-TN2_
🔹 Talking Postgres podcast Ep 40 with Jeremy Schneider: https://youtu.be/sRod9qYN4FU?si=5tQ11McwuQeM886n
More Links mentioned in this episode:
🔹 ACM SIGMOD-PODS Conference 2027: https://2027.sigmod.org/
🔹 CMUDB talk: HorizonDB: Co-Designing Postgres and Azure for Cloud-Native OLTP: https://youtu.be/EdgeqeW47_w?si=afGollXc4hl7ymuQ&t=23
🔹 PostgreSQL mailing list for pgsql-hackers: https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-hackers/
🔹 Azure HorizonDB docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/horizondb/
🔹 PostgreSQL docs for SLRU: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-SLRU-VIEW
🔹 Postgres Happiness Hints poster: https://ardentperf.com/happiness-hints/
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