PostgreSQL RDS Performance: Finding Slow Queries and Picking the Right Instance
Your PostgreSQL queries were fast in development. Now in production on RDS, they crawl. Here’s how to find what’s really slowing them down and choose the right instance type. I’ve debugged hundreds of slow PostgreSQL queries on RDS. The problem is rarely what you think it is, and throwing a bigger instance at it usually doesn’t help. Let me show you how to find the real bottlenecks and pick the right instance for your workload. ...