Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type
Date: 2009-05-28 22:20:11
Message-ID: 4A1F0E1B.7060704@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> It was changed to support partial-match tsvector queries. Without it,
> a partial match query would have to scan entire tsvectors instead
> of applying binary search. I don't know if Oleg and Teodor did any
> actual performance tests on the size of the hit, but it seems like
> it could be pretty awful for large documents.

Ah, ok, that's pretty significant. It makes a huge difference for some
users, one of whom will be quoted on the press release.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

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