Re: FTS performance with the Polish config

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Pavel Stehule wrote:

>
> czech stemmer doesn't exist :(
>

I'd try morfessor http://www.cis.hut.fi/projects/morpho/, which is
unsupervised morphological dictionary. I think it'd be not very hard to add
morfessor dictionary template to tsearch2, so people could create their
own stemmers.

>>
>> Ispell dictionary (doesn't matter english, or other language) is slow for
>> the first load and then it caches, so there is no problem if use persistent
>> database connection, which is de facto standard for any serious projects.
>>
>
> I agree so connection pooling should be a solution. But it is good?
> Cannot we share dictionary better?

We thought about this issue and got some idea. Teodor can be more clear here,
since I don't remember all details.

>
>>>
>>> Pavel
>>>
>>>> Oleg
>>>> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 2009/11/14 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:25:05PM +0100, Wojciech Knapik wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just finished implementing a "search engine" for my site and found
>>>>>>>> ts_headline extremely slow when used with a Polish tsearch
>>>>>>>> configuratio=
>>>>>
>>>>> n,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> while fast with English.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The documentation for ts_headline() states:
>>>>>>> ts_headline uses the original document, not a tsvector summary, so it
>>>>>>> can be slow and should be used with care.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's true but the argument in the docs would apply just as well to
>>>>>> english or any other config. =C2=A0So while Wojciech would be well
>>>>>> advised
>>>>>> to try to avoid making a lot of calls to ts_headline, it's still
>>>>>> curious
>>>>>> that it's so much slower in polish than english. =C2=A0Could we see a
>>>>>> self-contained test case?
>>>>>
>>>>> is it dictionary based or stem based?
>>>>>
>>>>> Dictionary based FTS is very slow (first load). Minimally czech FTS is
>>>>> slow.
>>>>>
>>>>> regards
>>>>> Pavel Stehule
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0
>>>>>> =C2=
>>>>>
>>>>> =A0 =C2=A0regards, tom lane
>>>>>>
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>>>>        Regards,
>>>>                Oleg
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>>        Regards,
>>                Oleg
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Regards,
Oleg
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