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Indexing Strategy

Explore how to develop an efficient indexing strategy in PostgreSQL to improve query performance and enforce data integrity through unique, primary key, and exclusion constraints. Understand the balance between index benefits and maintenance costs, and how to choose indexes that best support your application's needs while ensuring ACID compliance.

Coming up with an indexing strategy is an important step in terms of mastering our PostgreSQL database. It means that we’re in a position to make an informed choice about which indexes we need and don’t need in our application. A PostgreSQL index allows the system to have new options to find the data our queries need. In the absence of an index, ...