Scaling PostgreSQL to Petabyte Scale

The text discusses how PostgreSQL has been scaled up to handle petabytes of data and billions of records daily, thanks to the Insights feature offered by Timescale Cloud. This feature provides users with detailed statistics about their database queries' performance. Since its launch a year ago, the volume of data managed by this feature has increased in three dimensions: customer growth, increasing query loads per customer, and new metrics being tracked. Despite these increases, Timescale continues to manage this data effectively on PostgreSQL-based databases. The text also highlights how optimizations and improvements made to Timescale's tiered storage architecture have made the stored data more easily accessible and queryable than ever before.