Episode Details

Nikolay and Michael discuss GIN indexes in Postgres — what they are, what they're used for, and some limitations to be aware of.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• GIN Indexes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/gin.html
• Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Hellerstein, Naughton, Pfeffer) https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/vldb95-gist.pdf 
• RUM extension https://pgxn.org/dist/rum/1.1.0/
• Understanding Postgres GIN Indexes: The Good and the Bad (Lukas Fittl) https://pganalyze.com/blog/gin-index

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• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

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