How Small Postgres Metadata Tables Quietly Throttle Your Largest Queries

Sorting time-series data in PostgreSQL using the ORDER BY clause can become inefficient at scale, as it often results in data spilling to disk and consequently slowing down queries. To address this, techniques such as time_bucket and continuous aggregates have proven effective, demonstrated by reducing a query execution time from 4 seconds to just 9 milliseconds.

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