ChipsPlanetScaleabout 17 hours ago
Problems with large tables in Postgres
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Large Postgres tables cause predictable problems, including outages. A customer's unpartitioned table B with a foreign key to table A and cascade delete enabled caused an outage from a single delete. Product success creates large tables, which can be many rows, wide, or fat.
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