Multi-tenant options

Nikolay and Michael are joined by Gwen Shapira to discuss multi-tenant architectures — the high level options, the pros and cons of each, and how they're trying to help with Nile.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Gwen Shapira https://postgres.fm/people/gwen-shapira
• Nile https://www.thenile.dev
• SaaS Tenant Isolation Strategies (AWS whitepaper) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/saas-tenant-isolation-strategies/saas-tenant-isolation-strategies.html
• Row Level Security https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html
• Citus https://github.com/citusdata/citus
• Postgres.AI Bot https://postgres.ai/blog/20240127-postgres-ai-bot
• RLS Performance and Best Practices https://supabase.com/docs/guides/troubleshooting/rls-performance-and-best-practices-Z5Jjwv
• Case Gwen mentioned about the planner thinking an optimisation was unsafe
• Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants (Gwen’s recent talk at PGConf.dev) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfAStGb4s88
• Multi-tenant database the good, the bad, the ugly (talk by Pierre Ducroquet at PgDay Paris) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uxuPfSvTGU

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Postgres FM is produced by:

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

With special thanks to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork