Denormalize with Care
Explore best practices for denormalizing database schemas in PostgreSQL. Understand how to optimize queries before resorting to denormalization, assess trade-offs carefully, and apply this technique only when necessary to improve performance without sacrificing data integrity.
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We denormalize our application’s schema when we know what we’re doing and when we’ve double-checked that there’s no other possibility for implementing your application and business cases with the required level of performance.
Know when to denormalize your database
First, query optimization techniques—mainly rewriting ...