Hi Jesper and Pavel Thx for your hints. I'm rather reluctant in tuning with unwanted side effects, We'll see. I have to setup my system and db again before I can try out your tricks. Yours, Stefan 2013/2/8 Jesper Krogh <jesper@xxxxxxxx>: > On 08/02/13 01:52, Stefan Keller wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have problems with the performance of FTS in a query like this: >> >> SELECT * FROM FullTextSearch WHERE content_tsv_gin @@ >> plainto_tsquery('english', 'good'); >> >> It's slow (> 30 sec.) for some GB (27886 html files, originally 73 MB >> zipped). >> The planner obviously always chooses table scan: >> http://explain.depesz.com/s/EEE >> I have to check again, if I'm doing something wrong but I'm pretty >> sure it has to do with de-toasting and (wrong?) cost estimations. > > If you havent done it .. bump up statistics target on the column and > re-analyze, see what that gives. > > I have also been playing with the cost-numbers in order to get it to favour > an index-scan more often. That is lowering random_page_cost to be close to > seq_page_cost, dependent on your system, the amount of memory, etc, then > this can have negative side-effects on non-gin-queries. > > -- > Jesper -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance