slow count() was: tsearch2 poor performance - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Oleg Bartunov
Subject slow count() was: tsearch2 poor performance
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.58.0410040026240.14217@ra.sai.msu.su
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In response to Re: tsearch2 poor performance  (Kris Kiger <kris@musicrebellion.com>)
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Kris Kiger wrote:

> Hey all, its me again.  If I do not do a count(product_id) on my
> tsearch2 queries, its actually really fast, for example;
>

Hmm, I also really want to know  what's the difference ?
Postgresql 8.0beta3 on Linux 2.4.25

tsearchd=# explain analyze select body from txt where fts_index @@ to_tsquery('oil') limit 1000;
                                                           QUERY PLAN

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Limit  (cost=0.00..4027.67 rows=1000 width=315) (actual time=0.053..14.662 rows=1000 loops=1)
   ->  Index Scan using fts_idx on txt  (cost=0.00..12083.02 rows=3000 width=315) (actual time=0.049..12.552 rows=1000
loops=1)
         Index Cond: (fts_index @@ '\'oil\''::tsquery)
 Total runtime: 15.848 ms
(4 rows)

tsearchd=# explain analyze select count(body) from txt where fts_index @@ to_tsquery('oil') limit 1000;

Didn't get result after 10 minutes :(




    Regards,
        Oleg
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