18th January 2022 - Link Blog
Tricking Postgres into using an insane – but 200x faster – query plan. Jacob Martin talks through a PostgreSQL query optimization they implemented at Spacelift, showing in detail how to interpret the results of EXPLAIN (FORMAT JSON, ANALYZE) using the explain.dalibo.com visualization tool.
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