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SE Radio 583: Lukas Fittl on Postgres Performance

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Improving Query Performance with Indexes in Postgres

This chapter discusses the motivation behind the development of the index advisor feature in Postgres, which aims to analyze the query workload and recommend the right set of indexes. It highlights the importance of matching existing indexes, solving common problems with pagination queries, and utilizing features like partial indexes, views, and materialized views for better query performance.

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