Re: Postgres 9.1: Adding rows to table causing too much latency in other queries - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 19-12-2011 12:30, Sushant Sinha wrote:
> I recently upgraded my postgres server from 9.0 to 9.1.2 and I am
> finding a peculiar problem.I have a program that periodically adds rows
> to this table using INSERT. Typically the number of rows is just 1-2
> thousand when the table already has 500K rows. Whenever the program is
> adding rows, the performance of the search query on the same table is
> very bad. The query uses the gin index and the tsearch ranking function
> ts_rank_cd. 
> 
How bad is bad? It seems you are suffering from don't-fit-on-cache problem, no?

> This never happened earlier with postgres 9.0 Is there a known issue
> with Postgres 9.1? Or how to report this problem?
> 
Test case? Query times? Query plans? Are you sure you the compile options are
the same? What about the configuration parameters? What is the exact version
of both installations?


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