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by sgarland 902 days ago
Don’t worry, queries can still be written to bring a 96 core Xeon with 1 TB of RAM to its knees.

I’ve had to calculate maximum possible data transfer rates for RAM to convince devs that their query was the issue.

“This has an index, it should be fast!”

“OK, but you’re hitting 800 GB of pages…”