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Making Postgres slower

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Re: Making Postgres slower

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Post by vichyvich »

I love this! It would be great to have follow-ups and series of books about how to make things worse, as a way to learn to make things better.

Maybe it could be like O’Reilly, except the covers could have shittily-drawn fantasy animals, e.g. a 7-year-old’s drawing of a unicorn with a head on each side of its body both talking on their AirPods giving away their money to scammers, making PowerPoint slides, eating too much, doing hard drugs, live-streaming on Facebook, and standing on the railroad tracks with a train in the distance.

Re: Making Postgres slower

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Post by emseetech »

vichyvich wrote: post #6

I love this! It would be great to have follow-ups and series of books about how to make things worse, as a way to learn to make things better. Maybe it could be like O’Reilly, except the covers could have shittily-drawn fantasy animals, e.g. a 7-year-old’s drawing of a unicorn with a head on each side of its body both talking on their AirPods giving away their money to scammers, making PowerPoint slides, eating too m…

I took a creative writing class and we had a portion where we read and analyzed bad writing then took good writing and rewrote it poorly and those were the most helpful writing exercises I've ever done.

Re: Making Postgres slower

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Post by gerdesj »

I think this is absolute genius.

If you are ever going to get to grips with optimizing something, why not do the opposite first or as a foil?

How often do you really fenangle your database (or other system) properly? Are your performance enhancements really based on science or cargo culting or something else?

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