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Part 03 · Indexing

Composite, Covering and Partial Indexes

Composite indexColumn orderIndex-only scanPartial index

An index on (user_id, created_at) helps some queries and not others. Column order, covering indexes with index-only scans, and partial indexes for hot subsets.

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