Why Adding More Indexes Eventually Makes Things Worse

PostgreSQL

By Matty Stratton

min read

Mar 11, 2026

Every Postgres index is a flat tax on every insert. At high ingestion rates, that tax is the whole problem.

PostgreSQL for Everything

Built on PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud combines robustness and flexibility to tame your most demanding workloads, from real-time analytics and IoT data to events and vector embeddings.

Start a free trial

Stay updated with new posts and releases.

Receive the latest technical articles and release notes in your inbox.