In December I had tried this; it caused a tremendous slowdown in our system.
I have avoided it since then.
Do you expect pg_trgm to work with phrases? OI had read a post earlier from
an earlier support question that suggested that it I SHOULD expect
performance to degrade and that pg_trgrm was oriented towards word mathcing,
not phrase matching.
Carlo
""Steinar H. Gunderson"" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:02:54PM -0400, Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
>> Any suggestions on where to go with this project to improve performance
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm a bit unsure from reading your mail -- have you tried pg_trgm with a
> GiST
> index?
>
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