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titaniczero
on May 25, 2023
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Cases where full scans are better than indexes
Well, my guess is that updates and inserts are much more frequent than searches in their use case. You're assuming a balanced frequency for these operations and it hardly ever happens.
wswope
on May 25, 2023
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This is a read-heavy workload per the OP:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36071799
raldi
on May 25, 2023
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It was neither read-heavy nor write-heavy.
wswope
on May 26, 2023
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Ah, thanks for the correction; I’m guessing I read your comment too literally.
Would strikethrough my prior comment if it weren’t past the edit window…
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