Re: website doc search is extremely SLOW

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, "D(dot) Dante Lorenso" <dante(at)lorenso(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: website doc search is extremely SLOW
Date: 2004-01-01 01:01:15
Message-ID: 200401010101.i0111Fw08826@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > Out of everything I've found so far, mnogosearch is one of the best ... I
> > > just wish I could figure out where the bottleneck for it was, since, from
> > > reading their docs, their method of storing the data doesn't appear to be
> > > particularly off. I'm tempted to try their caching storage manager, and
> > > getting away from SQL totally, but I *really* want to showcase PostgreSQL
> > > on this :(
> >
> > Well, PostgreSQL is being un-showcased in the current setup, that's for
> > sure. :-(
>
> Agreed ... I could install the MySQL backend, whichits designed for, and
> advertise it as PostgreSQL? :)

I would be curious to know if it is faster --- that would tell use if it
is tuned only for MySQL.

Have you tried CLUSTER? I think the MySQL ISAM files are
auto-clustered, and clustering is usually important for full-text
searches.

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