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by dfunckt 151 days ago
I’ve no experience with Elastic but what they’re getting at I think is indexes in Elastic is actually your data because that’s all it does due to the purpose it was built for, whereas in Postgres indexes are, well, indexes — that is, derived data, not the source of truth.
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But if data is corrupt, how is rebuilding index fixing anything. What kind of corruption are we talking about.