Postgres creates an execution plan for how to retrieve the data you're asking for in a query. The execution plan is based in part on statistics from your data and indexes it has available. Just the right index and a bit of query tuning can have a huge payoff in performance gains that your users will notice.| Frontend Masters Boost RSS Feed
This Part 1 (of a 2-part series) is a practical, hands-on, applicable approach to database indexes. We’ll cover what B Trees are with a focus on deeply understanding, and internalizing how they store data on disk, and how your database uses them to speed up queries. This will set us up nicely for part 2, […]| Frontend Masters Boost RSS Feed