Hello 2011/5/11 Stanislav Raskin <raskin@xxxxxxx>: > Hello everybody, > I was experimenting with the FTS feature on postgres 8.3.4 lately and > encountered a weird performance issue when using a custom FTS configuration. > I use this german ispell dictionary, re-encoded to utf8: > http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/dicts/ispell/ispell-german-compound.tar.gz > With the following configuration: > > CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION public.german_de (COPY = > pg_catalog.german); > > CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY german_de_ispell ( > > ÂÂ ÂTEMPLATE = ispell, > > ÂÂ ÂDictFile = german_de_utf8, > > ÂÂ ÂAffFile = german_de_utf8, > > ÂÂ ÂStopWords = german_de_utf8 > > ); > > ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION german_de > > ÂÂ ÂALTER MAPPING FOR asciiword, asciihword, hword_asciipart, > > ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âword, hword, hword_part > > ÂÂ ÂWITH german_de_ispell, german_stem; > > So far so good. Indexing and creation of tsvectors works like a charm. > The problem is, that if I open a new connection to the database and do > something like this > SELECT to_tsquery('german_de', 'abcd'); > it takes A LOT of time for the query to complete for the first time. About > 1-1,5s. If I submit the same query for a second, third, fourth time and so > on, it takes only some 10-20ms, which is what I would expect. > It almost seems as if the dictionary is somehow analyzed or indexed and the > results cached for each connection, which seems counter-intuitive to me. > After all, the dictionaries should not change that often. > Did I miss something or did I do something wrong? > I'd be thankful for any advice. > Kind Regards it is expected behave :( . A loading of ispell dictionary is very slow. Use a german snowball instead. You can you a some pooling connection software too. Regards Pavel Stehule > -- > > Stanislav Raskin > > livn GmbH > Campus Freudenberg > Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21 > 42119 Wuppertal > > +49(0)202-8Â50Â66Â921 > raskin@xxxxxxx > http://www.livn.de > > livn > local individual video news GmbH > Registergericht Wuppertal HRB 20086 > > GeschÃftsfÃhrer: > Dr. Stefan BrÃes > Alexander Jacob -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general