Thinking in PostgreSQL

Mental Models for Senior Engineers

By: Abdelfattah Ragab

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Paperback | 15 January 2026

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68 Pages

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Thinking in PostgreSQL explores how senior engineers reason about PostgreSQL as a long-lived data system rather than a query engine. The book focuses on mental models, architectural tradeoffs, and operational thinking behind transactions, MVCC, schema evolution, performance, reliability, and failure. It emphasizes judgment, responsibility, and long-term decision-making over syntax or tuning recipes, helping experienced engineers design PostgreSQL systems that remain correct, maintainable, and trustworthy as they grow.

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