Analyzing Query Performance with Explain and Explain Analyze

Here are links to a few things we mentioned: 

• Using EXPLAIN (PostgreSQL documentation)
• explain.depesz.com
• explain.dalibo.com
• pgMustard 
• EverSQL
• pganalyze
• pg_stat_monitor (Extension by Percona)
• Recent thread on hackers mailing list about plan_id in pg_stat_activity
• auto_explain
• EXPLAIN observer effect (Ongres blog post by Álvaro Hernández)
• auto_explain overhead (blog post by Michael)  
• pg_test_timing
• Database Lab Engine (for thin clones)
• Our previous episode on BUFFERS
• EXPLAIN Explained (talk by Josh Berkus)
• A beginner's guide to EXPLAIN (talk by Michael)
• A deeper dive into EXPLAIN (talk by Michael)
• EXPLAIN glossary (pgMustard docs)
• Topic suggestions document

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