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parmindergarcha··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
Location: London, England Remote : Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PostgreSql, MariaDB, Golang, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Backend.

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: parminder.garcha@outlook.com

Database Engineer lots of experience within databases, comfortable coding, setting up entire backend database infrastructure from scratch.

parmindergarcha··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
If left joins are causing issues, maybe for a quick win try increasing the sample size on the column(s) involved e.g. ALTER TABLE tablename ALTER COLUMN columnname SET STATISTICS 1000 - (default I think is 100), remember to run 'ANALYZE'.
parmindergarcha··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
Noted that you only use this sparingly but you could try :-

* Materialised views (especially if the computation/joins are particularly nasty).

* Left outer joins are a good alternative to 'joins using case' and more likely to use the index.

parmindergarcha··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
Location: London, England

Remote : Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PostgreSql, MariaDB, Golang, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Backend.

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: parminder.garcha@outlook.com

Database Engineer lots of experience within databases, comfortable coding, setting up entire backend database infrastructure from scratch.