postgres

In this post, we look at how to overcome slow queries by analysing them with Explain and Analyze, and using indexes to modify and enhance the query timings. Postgres supports different kinds of indexing on the table for querying faster. Multiple column indexes A multi-column B-Tree index can be used with query conditions that involve any subset of the index’s columns. This index is most efficient when there are constraints on the leading (leftmost) columns....

Postgres is one of the most widely used open source databases in the world. At GOJEK, a lot of our products depend on Postgres as well. A lot of major companies use Postgres as their main database however when you’re building and operating at scale, the volume of data passing through the pipelines can slow down the most efficient systems. To optimise things in order to enhace performace, we can target the brain of the database whhich is optimizer....