Re: FTS GIN Index Question

Christian,

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Christian Ramseyer wrote:

> Hi List
>
> I have a largish partitioned table, it has ~60 million records in each of 12
> partitions. It appears that a Full Text Index could speed up some user
> queries a lot.
>
> A quick test with an additional tsvector column revealed that this would take
> up around 35 GB of space for this column and then maybe 5 more for the gin
> index on it. As this is a lot of space (~ 480 GB), I'm a bit tempted to use a
> gin index without the separate tsvector column. However, the doc says that
> this will be slower.

do you have problem with disk space ? Searching index is usually very fast
operation, only small part of index readed. Did you checked time to read
index ?

>
> Does anyone have an idea of how much slower we're talking here? The index
> defintion would be a concatenation of two setweights(), i.e.:
>
> ... using gin(
> (setweight(to_tsvector('config',coalesce(col1,'')), 'A') ||
> setweight(to_tsvector('config',coalesce(col2,'')), 'B')))
>
> Also, general recommendations regarding full text search configurations of
> that size are very welcome.

Regards,
Oleg
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