Lesson 5 of 8

Accelerate with indexes and read EXPLAIN

Link an index to a real query and measure its cost.

42 minPostgreSQL Pro

By the end of this lesson

  • Read a plan
  • Choose the columns of an index
  • Recognize a useless index

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