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Really interesting, adds some good tools to the chest - especially the flame graphs nicely put things into perspective. It's usually amazing how much more you

Really interesting, adds some good tools to the chest - especially the flame graphs nicely put things into perspective. It's usually amazing how much more you can squeeze out of your database if you just take a deep look inside. Often times, you'd be surprised what it's actually doing... Related / Further reading: "Debugging PostgreSQL performance, the hard way" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12606480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12606480

Artemis2 9y ago
Use the Index Luke is an excellent resource about relational database performance tuning as well: http://use-the-index-luke.com http://use-the-index-luke.com. I bought Markus Winand's book, it's extremely clear and concise (not the thick technical reference you would expect). Being able to understand the internals of modern database systems is great.