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Oct 2020
13m 50s

Indexing in PostgreSQL vs MySQL

Hussein Nasser
About this episode

In this video, I explain how both Postgres and MySQL store their indexes and their effect on reads vs writes. Let us discuss


0:00 Intro

1:00 Tables

2:00 Indexes

3:20 Indexing in Postgres

5:00 Indexing in MySQL

6:35 What Happens on Update on Postgres

7:20 What Happens on Update on MySQL

9:00 Reads on Postgres

9:40 Reads on MySQL

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