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Creates a composite index. This returns a google.longrunning.Operation which may be used to track the status of the creation. The metadata for the operation will be the type IndexOperationMetadata.
HTTP request
POST https://firestore.googleapis.com/v1beta2/{parent=projects/*/databases/*/collectionGroups/*}/indexes
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