Climbing B-tree Indexes in Postgres
Understand and apply the go-to index in Postgres for sorting and matching
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6 min readApr 5, 2020
Your query was slow so you decided to speed it up by adding an index. What type of index was it? Probably a B-tree.
Postgres has a few index types but B-trees are by far the most common. They’re good for sorting and matching; and once you understand what…