Re: [PERFORM] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PERFORM] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents.
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Msg-id 21653.1192117985@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PERFORM] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents.  (Benjamin Arai <me@benjaminarai.com>)
Responses Re: [PERFORM] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents.
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Benjamin Arai <me@benjaminarai.com> writes:
> It appears that the ORDER BY rank operation is the slowing factor.
> If I remove it then the query is pretty fast.  Is there another way
> to perform ORDER BY such that it does not do a sort?

I think you misunderstood: it's not the sort that's slow, it's the
computation of the rank() values that are inputs to the sort.

            regards, tom lane

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