SQL, Refreshed
Indexes & EXPLAIN
Lesson 4 of 5
An index trades disk space for speed by letting Postgres jump straight to rows instead of scanning them all.
What you'll learn
- Understand why an index makes lookups fast
- Distinguish a sequential scan from an index scan
- Read query cost with EXPLAIN
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