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Are the trade-offs measurable? If they are the database could just undo the index...

Not just indexing, but table partitions, materialized views, keeping things in-memory...




> Are the trade-offs measurable?

Yes, but you need the context about what is the correct tradeoff for your use case. If you've got a service that depends on fast writes then adding latency via extra indices for improved read speed may not be an acceptable trade off. It depends on your application though.




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