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Stacked on #49015, which is stacked on #49011. Review those first. ## Problem The Row Level Security guide spent 225 lines and 5 benchmark tables on performance, 29% of the page. The `RLS Performance and Best Practices` troubleshooting entry already covers the same six tips with the same numbers, from the same source. Neither page tells you how to check whether RLS is your bottleneck in the first place. Four of the six tips are not tuning advice. Indexes, `select`-wrapping, role scoping, and `security definer` safety change whether a policy is correct and safe, not just fast. ## Solution - Add `guides/database/postgres/row-level-security-performance`. It carries the client-filter rule, the join-rewrite rule, all 5 benchmark tables merged into one, and a new `Diagnose whether RLS is the bottleneck` section: toggle RLS off to confirm it's the cost, then read the plan under an impersonated role. That diagnostic exists in the troubleshooting entry and has never been in the guide. - Keep every rule that affects correctness on the RLS guide, grouped under `Write policies that scale`. These are also the four the `build-docs-002-rls-guide` eval grades, and an agent reads the guide top-down. - Repoint the Grafana IO troubleshooting entry at the new page. - Rewrite `More resources` as `Related content`. Every link now says what it is and when to use it. Adds `Advanced pgTAP testing`, the deepest RLS testing content in the docs, which nothing here linked. Drops discussion 14576: locked, mislabeled here as "RLS Guide and Best Practices" when it is "RLS **Performance** and Best Practices", and superseded by the troubleshooting entry and this new page. **Ownership rule** so the two pages don't drift: the RLS guide owns the rule and the correct form. The performance page owns the measurement and the optimizer explanation. If a sentence on the performance page tells you what to write, it belongs on the guide. Scoped out of this PR: `More resources` was assigned to the restructure PR in the plan, but the 14576 link is what this PR supersedes, so leaving it would ship a stale pointer. ## Manual testing 1. Open the [RLS performance guide](https://docs-git-docs-rls-performance-split-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security-performance) on the preview. It appears in the left nav under Database, Access and security, directly below Row Level Security. 2. Select the three rule links in its intro. Each lands on the matching section of the RLS guide. 3. Open the [Row Level Security guide](https://docs-git-docs-rls-performance-split-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security) and go to `Write policies that scale`. It holds indexes, `select`-wrapping, and role scoping, with one link out to the performance page. 4. Open the [Grafana IO troubleshooting entry](https://docs-git-docs-rls-performance-split-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/troubleshooting/interpreting-supabase-grafana-io-charts-MUynDR) and select the RLS performance guide link. It lands on the new page. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Added a dedicated guide for diagnosing and improving PostgreSQL Row Level Security performance. * Expanded guidance on indexing, query filters, role targeting, function usage, and avoiding costly policy joins. * Updated the Row Level Security guide with streamlined, scalable policy recommendations and links to related resources. * Added the new performance guide to the Database documentation navigation. * Updated troubleshooting guidance to reference the dedicated performance guide. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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