Re: Tsearch2 really slower than ilike ? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Tsearch2 really slower than ilike ?
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Msg-id 20041116153256.GA6026@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Tsearch2 really slower than ilike ?  (Hervé Piedvache <herve@elma.fr>)
Responses Re: Tsearch2 really slower than ilike ?
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:55:58PM +0100, Herv� Piedvache wrote:

> WHERE s.idx_site_name @@ to_tsquery('atari');

How much text does each site_name field contain?  From the field
name I'd guess only a few words.  Based on my own experience, if
the fields were documents containing thousands of words then I'd
expect tsearch2 to be faster than ILIKE by an order of magnitude
or more.

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Michael Fuhr
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