[sroussey]

So… maybe 15 or 20 years ago I had setup MySQL servers such that some replicas had different indexes. MySQL only had what we would now call logical replication.

So after setting up replication and getting it going, I would alter the tables to add indexes useful for special purposes including full text which I did not being built on the master or other replicas.

I imagine, but can not confirm, that you could do something similar with PostgreSQL today.

[whakim]

Yeah, logical replication is supported on PostgreSQL today and would support adding indices to a replica. I am not sure if that works in this case, though, because what's described here isn't just an index.