Re: [HACKERS] Remove 1MB size limit in tsvector

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 09/11/2017 01:54 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Ildus Kurbangaliev
>> <i.kurbangaliev@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>>> Moreover, RUM index
>>> stores positions + lexemes, so it doesn't need tsvectors for ranked
>>> search. As a result, tsvector becomes a storage for
>>> building indexes (indexable type), not something that should be used at
>>> runtime. And the change of the format doesn't affect index creation
>>> time.
>>
>> RUM indexes, though, are not in core.
>>
>
> Yeah, but I think Ildus has a point that this should not really matter
> on indexed tsvectors. So the question is how realistic that benchmark
> actually is. How likely are we to do queries on fts directly, not
> through a GIN/GiST index? Particularly in performance-sensitive cases?

So many questions unanswered... I am marking the patch as returned
with feedback as the thread has stalled for two months now.
-- 
Michael