Re: Problems with FTS

On 2011-11-30 21:58, Robert Haas wrote:
> The row-count estimates look reasonably accurate, so there's some
> other problem here. What do you have random_page_cost, seq_page_cost,
> and effective_cache_size set to? You might try "SET
> random_page_cost=2" or even "SET random_page_cost=0.5; SET
> seq_page_cost=0.3" and see if those settings help
I may be seing ghosts here, since I've encountered
the same problem. But the Query-planner does not
take toast into account, so a Sequential Scan + filter
only cost what it takes to scan the main table, but fts-fields
are typically large enough to be toasted so the cost should
be main+toast (amount of pages) + filtering cost.

I posted about it yesterday:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-11/msg01754.php

If above problem is on <9.1 a patch to proper account of gin-estimates
have been added to 9.1 which also may benefit the planning:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1.html

Improve GIN index scan cost estimation (Teodor Sigaev)

Jesper
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Jesper