I'm not sure what the answer is but maybe I can help? Would clustering the
name index make this faster? I thought that would bunch up the pages so the
names were more or less in order, which would improve search time. Just a
guess though.
Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremiah Jahn" <jeremiah@cs.earlham.edu>
To: "postgres performance" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:38 AM
Subject: [PERFORM] name search query speed
>I have about 5M names stored on my DB. Currently the searches are very
> quick unless, they are on a very common last name ie. SMITH. The Index
> is always used, but I still hit 10-20 seconds on a SMITH or Jones
> search, and I average about 6 searches a second and max out at about
> 30/s. Any suggestions on how I could arrange things to make this search
> quicker? I have 4gb of mem on a raid 5 w/ 3 drives. I'm hoping that I
> can increase this speed w/o a HW upgrade.
>
> thanx,
> -jj-
>
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