Nikolay and Michael discuss BUFFERS in EXPLAIN ANALYZE — what they are, how they can be very useful during query optimizations, and whether they should be on by default (spoiler alert, they should).

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Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- EXPLAIN parameters (PostgreSQL documentation) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/curre...
- Using BUFFERS for query optimization (blog post by Michael) https://www.pgmustard.com/blog/using-...
- EXPLAIN (ANALYZE) needs BUFFERS (blog post by Nikolay) https://postgres.ai/blog/20220106-exp...
- H3 indexes on PostGIS data (blog post by Ryan Lambert) https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2022/0...
- Turning BUFFERS on by default (latest patch) https://commitfest.postgresql.org/38/...
- pgMustard https://www.pgmustard.com/
- https://explain.depesz.com/
- https://explain.dalibo.com/
- Database Lab Engine https://github.com/postgres-ai/databa...