When I first heard about pgMustard, I dismissed it as “yet another PostgreSQL explain visualizer”. Why would I want to pay for one, when there are free ones out there?

My opinion immediately changed when I first tried it, though. The visualizations are not only more readable than others, pgMustard also does an amazing job of pointing out the problematic parts of the analyzed query. On top of that, it provides clear explanations on what happened in that part of the query, why it is a problem, and what I can try to fix it.

This is above and beyond what any other tool I’ve tried provides. It’s very actionable and speeds up my troubleshooting and fixing process my a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Copy & pasting explain results is a bit cumbersome, especially when analyzing a lot of variations of the same query. I’d appreciate some tooling to automate that part of the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.