Chapter 4. Performance
In the previous three chapters, you have seen how to create new databases and tables. You have also seen a variety of ways to retrieve data. Inevitably, you will run into a performance problem. At some point, PostgreSQL won't process data as quickly as you would like. This chapter should prepare you for that situation—after reading this chapter, you'll have a good understanding of how PostgreSQL executes a query and what you can do to make queries run faster.
How PostgreSQL Organizes Data
Before you can really dig into the details of performance tuning, you need to understand some of the basic architecture of PostgreSQL.
You already know that in PostgreSQL, data is stored in tables and tables are grouped into databases. At ...
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