Re: GiST indexes and concurrency (tsearch2)

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Marinos J. Yannikos wrote:

> Hi,
>
> according to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/limitations.html
> , concurrent access to GiST indexes isn't possible at the moment. I haven't
> read the thesis mentioned there, but I presume that concurrent read access is
> also impossible. Is there any workaround for this, esp. if the index is
> usually only read and not written to?

there are should no problem with READ access.

>
> It seems to be a big problem with tsearch2, when multiple clients are
> hammering the db (we have a quad opteron box here that stays 75% idle despite
> an apachebench with concurrency 10 stressing the php script that uses
> tsearch2, with practically no disk accesses)

I'm willing to see some details: version, query, explain analyze.

>
> Regards,
> Marinos
>

Regards,
Oleg
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