From 83ecb4b0df499a75a5eb54ebed3ea900606d3bb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GitLab Bot Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:08:17 +0000 Subject: Add latest changes from gitlab-org/gitlab@master --- doc/development/adding_database_indexes.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/development/adding_database_indexes.md') diff --git a/doc/development/adding_database_indexes.md b/doc/development/adding_database_indexes.md index 01b621b6631..7fe047b380b 100644 --- a/doc/development/adding_database_indexes.md +++ b/doc/development/adding_database_indexes.md @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ existing indexes need to be updated. The more indexes there are the slower this can potentially become. Indexes can also take up quite some disk space depending on the amount of data indexed and the index type. For example, PostgreSQL offers "GIN" indexes which can be used to index certain data types that can not be -indexed by regular btree indexes. These indexes however generally take up more -data and are slower to update compared to btree indexes. +indexed by regular B-tree indexes. These indexes however generally take up more +data and are slower to update compared to B-tree indexes. Because of all this one should not blindly add a new index for every column used to filter data by. Instead one should ask themselves the following questions: -- cgit v1.2.1