23rd November 2017 - Link Blog
How a single PostgreSQL config change improved slow query performance by 50x. “If you are using SSDs and running PostgreSQL with default configuration, I encourage you to try tuning random_page_cost & seq_page_cost. You might be surprised by some huge performance improvements.”
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