redshift-guide

Amazon Redshift is NOT PostgreSQL; corrects LLM mistakes; covers SQL, metadata, connectivity/auth, storage, query performance, and operations. Applies ONLY to Redshift (provisioned or Serverless). Pushes back on: CREATE INDEX, string_agg, pg_catalog, text type, SERIAL, stl_query. Triggers on: Redshift SQL, Redshift CREATE TABLE, Redshift COPY/UNLOAD, slow or suddenly slow Redshift query, EXPLAIN plan, queue wait, stale statistics/ANALYZE, result cache, Redshift permission denied, Redshift disk full, storage growth, snapshot/backup cost, ghost rows/bloat, VACUUM, spill to disk, distribution skew, Redshift system views, QUALIFY, PIVOT, MERGE, materialized views, Redshift Data API (Python/boto3), Redshift workload management (WLM), concurrency scaling, Redshift resize, Spectrum, awsdatacatalog, connection failures (SSL/TLS, ODBC/JDBC, connection limit), IAM/SAML federation, IAM Identity Center, datashares. Does NOT apply to: S3 policies, Athena, Glue/Iceberg outside Redshift, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB.

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