Re: INSERTs becoming slower and slower

You might find it faster to install contrib/tsearch2 for text indexing
sort of purposes...

Nörder-Tuitje wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am breaking up huge texts (between 25K and 250K words) into single
> words using PgPlsql.
>
> For this I am using a temp table in the first step :
>
> LOOP
>
> vLeft := vRight;
> vTmp := vLeft;
>
> LOOP
> vChr := SUBSTRING ( pText FROM vTmp FOR 1);
> vTmp := vTmp + 1;
> EXIT WHEN (vChr = ' ' OR vChr IS NULL OR vTmp =
> cBorder);
> END LOOP;
>
> vRight := vTmp;
>
> vLit := SUBSTRING(pText FROM vLeft FOR (vRight -
> vLeft - 1));
>
> IF (LENGTH(vLit) > 0) THEN
> WRDCNT := WRDCNT +1;
> INSERT INTO DEX_TEMPDOC(TMP_DOO_ID
> , TMP_SEQ_ID
> , TMP_RAWTEXT)
> VALUES (pDOO_ID
> , I
> , vLIT
> );
> END IF;
>
> I := I + 1;
> vTmp := LENGTH(vLIT);
>
>
> IF ((WRDCNT % 100) = 0) THEN
> PROGRESS = ROUND((100 * I) / DOCLEN,0);
> RAISE NOTICE '[PROC] % WORDS -- LAST LIT % (Len
> %) [% PCT / % of %]', WRDCNT, vLIT, vTMP, PROGRESS, I, DOCLEN;
>
> END IF;
>
>
> EXIT WHEN vRight >= cBorder;
> END LOOP;
>
>
> The doc is preprocessed, between each word only a single blank can be.
>
> My problem is : The first 25K words are quite quick, but the insert
> become slower and slower. starting with 1K words per sec I end up with
> 100 words in 10 sec (when I reach 80K-100K words)
>
> the only (nonunique index) on tempdoc is on RAWTEXT.
>
> What can I do ? Should I drop the index ?
>
> Here is my config:
>
> shared_buffers = 2000 # min 16, at least max_connections*2,
> 8KB each
> work_mem = 32768 # min 64, size in KB
> maintenance_work_mem = 16384 # min 1024, size in KB
> max_stack_depth = 8192 # min 100, size in KB
>
> enable_hashagg = true
> enable_hashjoin = true
> enable_indexscan = true
> enable_mergejoin = true
> enable_nestloop = true
> enable_seqscan = false
>
> The machine is a XEON 3GHz, 1GB RAM, SATA RAID 1 Array running 8.0.4
> i686 precompiled
>
>
> Thanks !
>
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> *Dipl.Inform.Marcus Noerder-Tuitje
> **Entwickler
> *
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