Re: tsearch2: very slow queries

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> 'k, I'm obviously doing something wrong, since my experiences with sites
>> like fts.postgresql.org indicate things should be *alot* faster then I'm
>> getting ...
>
> Well the first thing I would ask is are you running 8.0? My testing
> shows that Tsearch is pretty abysmal if you are not running 8.0. At
> least with very large tables.

This is one thing I was fearing, especially with the work that Teodor and
gang have been putting into it for 8.1 :(  Unfortunately, we're currently
stuck with 7.4.6 for this, so that is one thing I'm going to have to take
into consideration ...

> Considering the number of rows I am not that surprised but I would be
> curious to know what type of HD you have? Also correct me if I am wrong
> but gist indexes are typically very large. Do you have enough
> work_mem/sort_mem to keep them from going to disk?

I'm currently playing in a non-production environment (ie. my desktop
machine) just to get a feel for things ... our main server for this is a
proper 4G of RAM, sort_mem bump'd up quite nicely, and file system spread
over multiple spindles ...

Right now, I'm just playing with / learning the tsearch stuff, so am more
looking at a 'this is the worst case scenario on my box', and this
improves things ... not perfect, but anything I can improve here, I know
will be easier to improve on the production server :)

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