Why does my local PostgreSQL database handle a simple query in milliseconds while the same query takes seconds on our staging environment, and what indexes should I look into adding to fix this?
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Why does my local PostgreSQL database handle a simple query in milliseconds while the same query takes seconds on our staging environment, and what indexes should I look into adding to fix this?
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