+
+## Database options
+
+### RUM indexing for full text search
+* `rum_enabled`: If RUM indexes should be used. Defaults to `false`.
+
+RUM indexes are an alternative indexing scheme that is not included in PostgreSQL by default. While they may eventually be mainlined, for now they have to be installed as a PostgreSQL extension from https://github.com/postgrespro/rum.
+
+Their advantage over the standard GIN indexes is that they allow efficient ordering of search results by timestamp, which makes search queries a lot faster on larger servers, by one or two orders of magnitude. They take up around 3 times as much space as GIN indexes.
+
+To enable them, both the `rum_enabled` flag has to be set and the following special migration has to be run:
+
+`mix ecto.migrate --migrations-path priv/repo/optional_migrations/rum_indexing/`
+
+This will probably take a long time.