
SE Radio 583: Lukas Fittl on Postgres Performance
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The Importance of Indexing in Database Performance
This chapter discusses the importance of indexing in database performance. They explain different types of indexes in Postgres, such as B3 index, gen index, gist index, and hash index, and their trade-offs. They emphasize that it is the responsibility of the application engineer to create the right indexes based on the queries made by the code.
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