FTS GIN Index Question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christian Ramseyer
Subject FTS GIN Index Question
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Msg-id 4CA29177.8040606@networkz.ch
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Responses Re: FTS GIN Index Question  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
List pgsql-general
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.

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.

Christian




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