Why Your Database Has Too Many Indexes: The Write Amplification Tax Nobody Measures
Every index is a tax on every write.
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Every index is a tax on every write.
Logical replication errors hide in aggregate stats.
Small payloads get bigger after gzip.
Your database has a TLS dashboard. Nobody reads it.
Sometimes the planner is right to ignore your index.
ANALYZE has a progress view. Almost nobody watches it.
Triggers run in alphabetical order. Did you know?
Your database checkpoints every five minutes. Are you watching?
Every INSERT into a child table quietly locks the parent row.
The SQL standard upsert Postgres took 25 years to ship.
Connection strings set host and password. They should set much more.
The query stats your database already collects but nobody reads.