BRIN Index for PostgreSQL: Don’t Forget the Benefits

I’d be interested to know some specifics on how big the index is and how well it performs for different values of the pages_per_range parameter on this dataset.

tl;dr is this:

> BRIN indexes are efficient if the ordering of the key values follows the organization of blocks in the storage layer....Keys on generated sequence numbers or created data are best candidates for BRIN index