PostgreSQL Slow Query Troubleshooting with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and pg_stat_statements

PostgreSQL slow query troubleshooting with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and pg_stat_statements: find, diagnose, and fix slow queries in production, step by step.

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pg_stat_statements deep dive

pg_stat_statements for production PostgreSQL: architecture, tuning, HA and observability playbook by MinervaDB engineers.

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What is new with pg_stat_statements in PostgreSQL 17?

New Features in pg_stat_statements in PostgreSQL 17 1. Tracking of Nested Statements PostgreSQL 17 adds the ability to track nested statements executed within functions, procedures, and DO blocks: Previously, only top-level statements were tracked However, […]

pg_Stat_statements vacuum and analyze: Monitoring VACUUM and ANALYZE Performance

pg_stat_statements is a PostgreSQL extension that provides a detailed view of the SQL statements executed by the database server. It can be used to monitor the performance of VACUUM and ANALYZE operations by tracking the […]

Supabase FinOps: the 10 metrics that expose overspending on Supabase

Supabase FinOps: 10 Essential Metrics to Stop Overspending in 2026

Supabase FinOps guide: what the Spend Cap does not cover, the cost mistakes developers repeat, how to tell you are overspending on Supabase, and the 10 metrics to monitor, with SQL, pg_cron and Prometheus examples.

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DBaaS Risks: 5 Costly Myths That Wreck Budgets and Trust

The cloud console says Available. The dashboard is green. The provider's status page has not had an incident in months. And yet the monthly invoice has doubled, a restore that "should have worked" did not, [...]

YugabyteDB Performance Monitoring: Kill Slow SQL in 6 Steps

At 02:14 the p99 alert fires. Dashboards show the cluster is up, CPU looks unremarkable and every node is healthy. Yet checkout queries that took 8 ms now take 400. In a single-node database you [...]

YugabyteDB Performance Tuning: 15 Powerful, Proven Tips

In a single-node PostgreSQL server, a slow query usually means a slow plan. In a distributed SQL database, a slow query usually means too many network round trips. That one difference changes almost every rule [...]

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Amazon RDS Support: Expert 24×7 DBA Cover for 8 RDS and Aurora Engines

MinervaDB · Amazon RDS Support · 24×7 remote DBA and consulting for RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Db2, Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQLAmazon RDS Support for the Database Work AWS Does Not [...]

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