{
  "id": 8048488,
  "title": "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY is not free, and half the time you do not need it",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/create-index-concurrently-is-not-free-and-half-the-time-you-do-not",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-17T15:30:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/bolvrk/create-index-concurrently-is-not-free-and-half-the-time-you-do-not-need-it-45o4"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The standard advice is \"always CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY in production\". It is good advice and it is also a little lazy, because it skips over what the concurrent form costs and when you are paying that cost for nothing. So here are numbers. The setup Postgres 16, one table, twenty million rows, 1.6 GB on disk. While each index builds, a second session inserts one row every fifty milliseconds and…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}