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[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

I don’t think that would be the case!
On the contrary, there’s a considerable amount of added performance by running data separately. There are even tutorials about it:

Configure Discourse to use a separate PostgreSQL server

Let’s say you’re using AWS RDS, or an existing PostgreSQL server managed elsewhere. It’s fairly straightforward to get Discourse to use such a setup, without needing to grant superuser privileges to anything that Discourse itself runs. Here’s how. Prerequisites Discourse requires PostgreSQL 13; if you try to run on a newer or older version, it might work, but we don’t guarantee it, and if something breaks in the future, you get to keep both pieces. We also require some extensions that are di…