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I run a lot of Node.js applications backed by PostgreSQL. Most of them started fast. Then traffic grew, dashboards slowed down, and suddenly a query that used to take 200ms was hanging at 5 seconds. I've been there.

PostgreSQL is powerful, but it doesn't optimize itself.…