Well, I think it shouldn't disappear for a few releases yet...
Chris
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> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2002 12:43 PM
> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne
> Cc: Hackers; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] tsearch vs. fulltextindex
>
>
>
> Good point. Some said fulltextindex was better for certain queries, but
> if no one can come up with such a case, we can remove it.
>
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>
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just done some performance comparisons between
> contrib/fulltextindex
> > and contrib/tsearch. Even with every optimisation I can think of for
> > fulltextindex, tsearch is 300 times faster ;)
> >
> > Plus it doesn't require a separate table or complicated queries.
> >
> > I think we should strongly encourage people to use tsearch instead of
> > fulltextindex. I hope to commit some change to fulltextindex
> in the near
> > future, so I'll add a note to the readme then.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > eg:
> >
> > australia=# explain analyse select food_id, category_id,
> description from
> > test_foods where not pending and fulltextidx ## 'baskin&fruit';
> > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
> >
> > Index Scan using fulltextidx_idx on test_foods
> (cost=0.00..45.93 rows=11
> > width=40) (actual time=0.22..1.53 rows=8 loops=1)
> > Total runtime: 1.70 msec
> >
> > EXPLAIN
> > australia=# explain analyze SELECT distinct(f.food_id), f.category_id,
> > f.description, f.brand FROM food_foods f, food_foods_fti f0,
> food_foods_fti
> > f1 WHERE NOT f.pending AND f0.id=f.oid AND f0.string ~ '^baskin' AND
> > f1.id=f.oid AND f1.string ~ '^fruit';
> > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
> >
> > Unique (cost=12.10..12.11 rows=1 width=66) (actual time=532.11..532.25
> > rows=8 loops=1)
> > -> Sort (cost=12.10..12.10 rows=1 width=66) (actual
> time=532.10..532.14
> > rows=8 loops=1)
> > -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..12.09 rows=1 width=66) (actual
> > time=292.41..531.89 rows=8 loops=1)
> > -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..6.07 rows=1 width=8) (actual
> > time=292.35..531.35 rows=8 loops=1)
> > -> Index Scan using food_foods_fti_string_idx on
> > food_foods_fti f0 (cost=0.00..3.03 rows=1 width=4) (actual
> time=0.07..0.45
> > rows=23 loops=1)
> > -> Index Scan using food_foods_fti_string_idx on
> > food_foods_fti f1 (cost=0.00..3.03 rows=1 width=4) (actual
> time=0.04..16.52
> > rows=1092 loops=23)
> > -> Index Scan using food_foods_oid_idx on food_foods f
> > (cost=0.00..6.01 rows=1 width=58) (actual time=0.03..0.04
> rows=1 loops=8)
> > Total runtime: 532.49 msec
> >
> > EXPLAIN
> >
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