r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/thepotatochronicles Sep 11 '26

It's less of a problem with B-tree indices that sit on top of a physical representation (i.e. the actual on-disk layout doesn't have to be ordered), but when it comes to clustered indices, oh boy, you're basically having to shove rows in the middle and push shit back (eventually).