Postgres Performance Tips: Reducing Query Overhead

There is more to Postgres performance than setting up indexes.

Ecky Putrady
Dev Genius
Published in
3 min readMay 20, 2023

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So you have set up your indexes correctly, but your API latency is still high due to the database. What else can you do? Well, you can reduce the number of database calls that you make. Read on.

Queries have overhead

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