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MAKING POSTGRES 42,000X SLOWER BECAUSE I AM UNEMPLOYED

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A web dev shows how they successfully made a Postgres database 42,000 times slower by tweaking configuration parameters in `postgresql.conf`, focusing on disabling caching, maximizing background processes, reducing WAL efficiency, essentially deleting indexes and forcing single-threaded I/O.