alt Hacker NewsWhy not optimise the bad queries first?
Aside. Job section says not 9-5. What does that mean? Long hours? Or not 9-5 attitude?
Why not optimise the bad queries first?
Aside. Job section says not 9-5. What does that mean? Long hours? Or not 9-5 attitude?
Author here. Optimizing bad queries was absolutely part of the issues with the performance. The issue with cockroach was that the visibility into those bad queries was not great. It wasn't until we had the superior tooling from the Postgres ecosystem that we were able to track them down more efficiently.