Postgres Tells You Your Query Was Slow. Not Which Index Was Wasted.

<p><em>B-tree internals, column order and planner statistics in Postgres 19, checked against MongoDB's ESR rule.</em></p> <p>Most "add an index" advice stops at <code>CREATE

<p>If your app has a slow endpoint and you're staring at application logs trying to guess which query is the culprit, stop. Postgres already tracked every query it ran, how long

<p>PostgreSQL index design is often misunderstood.</p> <p>Many developers think that creating a good index simply means:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Create an index containing the

<p>A team notices a checkout endpoint slowing down. Response times have crept from 80ms to 900ms over two weeks, but the infrastructure dashboard shows nothing abnormal. So the

<h2> I Thought My Index Would Fix Everything </h2> <p>I added the index.</p> <p>Ran the query.</p> <p>And… nothing changed.</p> <p>Same slow response. Same frustration.</p>

<p>When we write:<br /> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight sql"><code><span class="k">SELECT</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span

<h1> Prisma Query Logging and PostgreSQL: Where the ORM Ends and the Database Begins </h1> <p>I turned on query logging in Prisma, watched queries rolling into the console, and

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