Indexing Your Way into a Performance Bottleneck

119 · Timescale · April 10, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
Summary
This post discusses the impact of indexes on write I/O in Postgres tables, particularly when dealing with large datasets over 500 million rows. It highlights how excessive indexing can lead to performance bottlenecks and offers strategies to identify and resolve these issues by finding and eliminating 'zombie indexes.'