Re: performance problems with bulk inserts/updates on tsrange with gist-based exclude constrains

From: Chris Withers <chris(at)withers(dot)org>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: performance problems with bulk inserts/updates on tsrange with gist-based exclude constrains
Date: 2016-09-16 10:46:35
Message-ID: 24a4232d-d335-df9a-0f10-b5eefe56d718@withers.org
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On 16/09/2016 10:26, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 9/16/2016 2:23 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
>>
>> wait, what is a tsrange? the standard textsearch data types in
>> postgres are tsvector and tsquery,
>
> never mind, I should have known, its a timestamp range. ...
>
>
> when you do updates, are you changing any of the indexed fields, or
> just "value" ?
Yeah, it's a temporal table, so "updates" involve modifying the period
column for a row to set its end ts, and then inserting a new row with a
start ts running on from that.

Of course, the adds are just inserting new rows.

cheers,

Chris

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