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If you have a slow query, one of the obvious moves is to add an index. So you look at the WHERE clause, pick a column, run CREATE INDEX, and test again. Sometimes it helps, often it doesn’t. And now you have an index sitting there, not…
The engineering team at Meta recently outlined how the company migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data daily to improve reliability and operational efficiency. The team used techniques…
PostgreSQL 14 unified query-id computation across all subsystems, but defaulting to always-on would tax every backend.
PostgreSQL finally has an open-source Transparent Data Encryption option.