Re: tsvector_update_trigger performance? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: tsvector_update_trigger performance?
Date
Msg-id 20090624162915.GB16227@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: tsvector_update_trigger performance?  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
Responses Re: tsvector_update_trigger performance?  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
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Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Chris St Denis wrote:
>
>> Is tsvector_update_trigger() smart enough to not bother updating a
>> tsvector if the text in that column has not changed?
>
> no, you should do check yourself. There are several examples in mailing lists.

Or you could try using the supress_redundant_updates_trigger() function
that has been included in 8.4 (should be easy to backport)

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