In a wonderful blog, Kyle explores the pains he faced managing a Postgres instance for a startup he works for and how enabling partitioning sigintfically created wait events causing the backend and subsequently NGINX to through 500 errors.
We discuss this in this video/podcast
https://www.kylehailey.com/post/postgres-partition-pains-lockmanager-waits
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