Re: GiST index performance

Was there every any conclusion on this issue?

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Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>
> Revisiting the thread a month back or so, I'm still investigating
> performance problems with GiST indexes in Postgres.
>
> Looking at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items I'd
> like to clarify the contrib/seg issue. Contrib/seg is vulnerable to
> pathological behaviour which is fixed by my second patch, which can be
> viewed as complete. Contrib/cube, being multi-dimensional, is not affected
> to any significant degree, so should not need alteration.
>
> A second quite distinct issue is the general performance of GiST indexes
> which is also mentioned in the old thread linked from Open Items. For
> that, we have a test case at
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2009-04/msg00276.php for
> btree_gist indexes. I have a similar example with the bioseg GiST index. I
> have completely reimplemented the same algorithms in Java for algorithm
> investigation and instrumentation purposes, and it runs about a hundred
> times faster than in Postgres. I think this is a problem, and I'm willing
> to do some investigation to try and solve it.
>
> Do you have a recommendation for how to go about profiling Postgres, what
> profiler to use, etc? I'm running on Debian Linux x86_64.
>
> Matthew
>
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