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Louise Grandjonc
Personal blog · louisemeta.com/blogprogrammingdata
Louise Grandjonc's personal blog at louisemeta.com covers programming and data. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Introduction to PostgreSQL's Indexes”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a quick explanation of PostgreSQL GIN index algorithms. The comment cites it only as an illustration of a point about indexes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Python/Django/SQL developer, PostgreSQL enthousiast
Most-linked posts?
- Introduction to PostgreSQL's Indexes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-18
What Hacker News says?
A quick search brought this up: https://www.louisemeta.com/blog/indexes-gin-algorithms/ I think it illustrates the issue he's mentioning well enough.
Comment linking /blog/indexes-gin-algorithms/
on “Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions”Submitted Introduction to PostgreSQL's Indexes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to PostgreSQL's Indexes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Postgres Explain – Costs and Actual Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL's indexes – BTrees internal data structure (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL's Indexes – Gin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Postgres EXPLAIN: Joins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding EXPLAIN: Ordering and a word on offset as a story · 1 points
HN discussion