Re: pg full text search very slow for Chinese characters

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:11 AM Michael Lewis <mlewis(at)entrata(dot)com> wrote:

> >My postgres instance is based on docker image postgres:11 and runs on my
> MacBook Pro i7 16GB.
>
> How much ram and such did you give to this vm?
>
>
> >To my surprise, postgres 11 is extremely slow when creating a full text
> index. I added a column of tsvector type and tried to create an index on
> that column. Pg could not finish creating a GIN index for a long time and I
> had to cancel the execution.I then tried to create a partial full text
> index for 500 rows and it took postgres 2 to 3 minutes to create the index.
>
>
> Did you customize any config? maintenance_work_mem specifically would be
> relevant to the time to create an index and default value is only 64MB.
> Especially if you are running a spinning hard drive and not ssd, then this
> could be problematic.
>

I apologize for my top post. :D Won't happen again