Re: ADD COLUMN ts tsvector GENERATED too slow

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Florents Tselai <florents(dot)tselai(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ADD COLUMN ts tsvector GENERATED too slow
Date: 2022-07-06 09:38:22
Message-ID: 155880bb-f9d7-a34b-664b-61763b6e8719@enterprisedb.com
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On 06.07.22 10:42, Florents Tselai wrote:
> I have a beefy server (40+ worker processes , 40GB+ shared buffers) and a table holding (key text, text text,) of around 50M rows.
> These are text fields extracted from 4-5 page pdfs each.
>
> I’m adding the following generated col to keep up with tsvectors
>
> ALTER TABLE docs_text ADD COLUMN ts tsvector GENERATED ALWAYS AS (to_tsvector(’simple', left(text, 1048575))) STORED
>
> I expect this to be slow, but it’s been running for 18hrs already and I certainly hope I’ve done something wrong and there’s a smarter way.

Maybe it's stuck on a lock? ALTER TABLE / ADD COLUMN requires an
exclusive lock on the table.

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