7 Powerful PostgreSQL Index Best Practices to Boost Your Database Performance

An index in PostgreSQL is a special lookup table where the database search engine can use a to speed up data retrieval

B-tree indexes are the by default type of index in PostgreSQL and are usually employed for the majority of cases

A hash index is a hash value of the column that is being indexed and it is stored in the hash index

Indexes made with GiST are able to deal with more complicated data types, the examples of which could be geometric data or full text search

GIN indexes are very good in terms of indexing composite values such as arrays, full-text search data, or JSONB

SP-GiST is a great way of dividing the data in space of multi-dimension