Re: name search query speed

yes, it does. I forgot to mention, that I also have clustering on that
table by my name_field index. My Bad.

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:00 -0500, Ken Egervari wrote:
> I'm not sure what the answer is but maybe I can help? Would clustering the
> name index make this faster? I thought that would bunch up the pages so the
> names were more or less in order, which would improve search time. Just a
> guess though.
>
> Ken
>
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> From: "Jeremiah Jahn" <jeremiah(at)cs(dot)earlham(dot)edu>
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> Subject: [PERFORM] name search query speed
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>
> >I have about 5M names stored on my DB. Currently the searches are very
> > quick unless, they are on a very common last name ie. SMITH. The Index
> > is always used, but I still hit 10-20 seconds on a SMITH or Jones
> > search, and I average about 6 searches a second and max out at about
> > 30/s. Any suggestions on how I could arrange things to make this search
> > quicker? I have 4gb of mem on a raid 5 w/ 3 drives. I'm hoping that I
> > can increase this speed w/o a HW upgrade.
> >
> > thanx,
> > -jj-
> >
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