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Burn-In Testing for Database Agents
A database agent should survive boring repeated work before it earns permission to touch serious Postgres environments.
Open notePostgres research topic
Production Readiness
Burn-in testing, readiness gates, evidence freshness, restore drills, benchmark disclosures, and operational launch criteria.
Published notes
Evidence-backed notes in this cluster.
Editorial queue
Upcoming notes for this topic.
May 7
Reading Postgres WAL Pressure Before Tuning
Connect write-ahead log pressure to optimization safety and show why write-heavy systems need different proof.
WAL generation rateCheckpoint and replication lag signalsWrite amplification note
May 11
Restore Drills as a Database Agent Gate
Argue that autonomous change authority should wait for recent restore-drill evidence.
Latest restore timestampRPO/RTO measurementBackup target