The startup's Postgres survival guide

一句话概要

A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.

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Alexander Belanger Co-Founder Hatchet Over the past half year or so, I’ve been writing an internal doc for our engineers trying to distill two years of Postgres battles into a somewhat cohesive document. While I love the Postgres manual , I find it’s hard to turn to when shit hits the fan because it’s just so darn comprehensive. I thought this might be useful for others and would appreciate feedback (or other tidbits that you’ve learned running Postgres in production).

Before starting Hatchet, while I was familiar with SQL, the extent of my knowledge was basically: if a query is slow, you need an index. That’s the starting point for this doc; I’m going to assume you’re familiar with SQL basics, rows, tables, and know roughly what an index is.

And if Claude is writing all of your queries, this might be a waste of time! I recommend supabase/agent-skills

This guide should still be useful, but you might need to translate some of these tips into your ORM of choice. Lots of optimizations as you scale just aren’t possible with ORMs unless you can break past the abstraction layer and write …

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