[image] To clarify, if I do: type Cat { birthDate: DateTime @search(by: [day]) } and then try to find a Cat that has birthDate equal to some date D, it’ll only compare up to the day and ignore hours, minutes and seconds etc?

No. An index basically tells the search function where to search, so your searches happen faster. For example, let’s say you have a word that you want to find in a dictionary. Say the word is “quaff”. What is the fastest way to find the word in the dictionary? You jump to the part of the book that …

Don't understand DateTime search index in GraphQL

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chewxy (chewxy) September 7, 2020, 4:50am 7

Yes.

Runtime processing costs too. If a query can use multiple indices, then the query will be run with each index, essentially doing N times the work.

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