Re: Slow fulltext query plan

Benoit Delbosc <bdelbosc(at)nuxeo(dot)com> writes:
> On 13/04/2012 00:25, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Is there a reason why you're writing the query in such a
>> non-straightforward way, rather than just
>>
>> EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT hierarchy.id
>> FROM hierarchy
>> JOIN fulltext ON fulltext.id = hierarchy.id
>> WHERE (TO_TSQUERY('whatever') @@ nx_to_tsvector(fulltext.fulltext))
>> OR (TO_TSQUERY('whatever') @@ nx_to_tsvector(fulltext.fulltext_title));

> This query is written by a framework, also I thought that is a common
> pattern that can be found in the documentation:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/textsearch-controls.html

Well, "common pattern" would be stretching it. Anyway I've concluded
that this is in fact a planner bug. There will be a fix in 9.2, but I'm
not going to take the risk of back-patching it, so you might want to
think about changing that framework.

regards, tom lane