DatabasesPostgreSQL Indexes Without the Overhead
A practical look at what indexes solve, what they cost, and how to reason about them before adding one.
02 SEPT 2026 • 4 MIN READ↗

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A practical look at what indexes solve, what they cost, and how to reason about them before adding one.
Schema design becomes clearer when you start from entities, relationships, constraints, and query patterns rather than tables alone.
A SQL query is a request for a result, but PostgreSQL still has to decide how to produce that result efficiently.
Normalization is useful because it reduces contradictory copies of facts, not because every database must maximize table count.