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--- Index on documents.meta_date for the timeline density aggregation (issue #385).
--- The new GET /api/documents/density endpoint does GROUP BY date_trunc('month', meta_date)
--- across the full table; an index keeps the aggregation cheap as the archive grows.
--- Cheap to add at any size and removes the future-investigation tax.
---
--- Note: the entity field is `documentDate` but it's mapped to the PostgreSQL column
--- `meta_date` (see Document.java @Column(name = "meta_date")).
-
-CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_documents_meta_date ON documents (meta_date);