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    config
    maintainance
    scaling
+   indexes
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+Additional database indices
+===========================
+
+If you have a large pretix database, some features such as search for orders or events might turn pretty slow.
+For PostgreSQL, we have compiled a list of additional database indexes that you can add to speed things up.
+Just like any index, they in turn make write operations insignificantly slower and cause the database to use
+more disk space.
+
+The indexes aren't automatically created by pretix since Django does not allow us to do so only on PostgreSQL
+(and they won't work on other databases). Also, they're really not necessary if you're not having tens of
+thousands of records in your database.
+
+However, this also means they won't automatically adapt if some of the refered fields change in future updates of pretix
+and you might need to re-check this page and change them manually.
+
+Here is the currently recommended set of commands::
+
+    CREATE EXTENSION pg_trgm;
+
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_event_slug
+        ON pretixbase_event
+        USING gin (upper("slug") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_event_name
+        ON pretixbase_event
+        USING gin (upper("name") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_order_code
+        ON pretixbase_order
+        USING gin (upper("code") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_voucher_code
+        ON pretixbase_voucher
+        USING gin (upper("code") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_invoice_nu1
+        ON "pretixbase_invoice" (UPPER("invoice_no"));
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_invoice_nu2
+        ON "pretixbase_invoice" (UPPER("full_invoice_no"));
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_organizer_name
+        ON pretixbase_organizer
+        USING gin (upper("name") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_organizer_slug
+        ON pretixbase_organizer
+        USING gin (upper("slug") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_order_email
+        ON pretixbase_order
+        USING gin (upper("email") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_order_comment
+        ON pretixbase_order
+        USING gin (upper("comment") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_orderpos_name
+        ON pretixbase_orderposition
+        USING gin (upper("attendee_name_cached") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_orderpos_scret
+        ON pretixbase_orderposition
+        USING gin (upper("secret") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_orderpos_email
+        ON pretixbase_orderposition
+        USING gin (upper("attendee_email") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_ia_name
+        ON pretixbase_invoiceaddress
+        USING gin (upper("name_cached") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_ia_company
+        ON pretixbase_invoiceaddress
+        USING gin (upper("company") gin_trgm_ops);
+
+
+Also, if you use our ``pretix-shipping`` plugin::
+
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_sa_name
+        ON pretix_shipping_shippingaddress
+        USING gin (upper("name") gin_trgm_ops);
+    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY pretix_addidx_sa_company
+        ON pretix_shipping_shippingaddress
+        USING gin (upper("company") gin_trgm_ops);
+