Why I Stopped Uploading SQL Dumps to the Cloud
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I recently analyzed a 4.2 GB PostgreSQL dump from a legacy e-commerce platform. The query planner was choking on a single join between orders and order_items . Usually, this kind of deep structural analysis requires loading the schema into a temporary cloud instance, running EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a su…
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- 2026-08-24 13:00 · DEV Community — AI
Why I Stopped Uploading SQL Dumps to the Cloud