Gael Le Mignot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are using PostgreSQL for storing data and full-text search indexes
> for the webiste of a daily newspaper. We are very happy overall with the
> results, but we have one "weird" behaviour that we would like to solve.
>
> The problem is when we index objects into the full-text search part of
> the database (which a DELETE and then an INSERT into a specific table),
> the INSERT sometimes take a long time (from 10s to 20s), but the same
> insert (and many other similar ones) are fast (below 0.2s).
>
Have you tried with strace, just to see where the time is spent?
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