Indexes can greatly improve the performance of a Postgres database, especially as the size of the tables grow. In this video, Jon Meyers demonstrates how to create an index for a particular column, and use explain analyze to measure the optimization.

Managing Indexes in Postgres: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/data...

By default, Postgres creates a B-Tree index, which makes filtering result sets incredibly performant. The index stores a copy of the column's value, as well as a pointer to the full row, in case the query requires additional data.

00:00 Make your queries 43,240x faster
01:04 A very slow Select query (without index)
02:39 Create an Index
03:09 A super fast Select query (with index)
05:24 Selecting an Index - Postgres Query Planner
07:55 Does the order of where statements matter?
10:28 What happens if multiple indexes are available?
12:13 Why not index every column?

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