From: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
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To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)MIT(dot)EDU> |
Cc: | Achilleus Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>, pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Gist indexes on int arrays |
Date: | 2003-03-04 18:16:41 |
Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.53.0303042110580.15273@ra.sai.msu.su |
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)MIT(dot)EDU> writes:
>
> > Can I have a GiST index on (foo_id, attribute_set_array) and have it be just
> > as fast at narrowing the search to just foo_id = 900 but also speed up the ~
> > operation?
>
> Hm, so if I understand what I'm reading I can do this if I load the btree_gist
> contrib module as well. I'm still not sure whether it'll be worthwhile for
> this application though.
>
> I have a bit of a problem though. Is building GiST indexes supposed to take
> much much longer than building btree indexes? It's been running nearly an hour
> and it's still going. The hard drive is hardly moving so it seems to be all
> cpu usage. I don't even see any pgsql_tmp usage.
>
> db=# CREATE INDEX cache_gist_idx on cache using gist ( foo_id , attribute_set gist__int_ops);
>
> postgres 30176 86.3 22.2 64896 57344 ? R 11:08 40:32 postgres: postgres slo [local] CREATE INDEX
>
>
> I don't remember exact numbers but building the normal btree index took on the
> order of 15m. This will have to be rebuilt nightly, an hour long index build
> won't be practical.
what's the time to create gist indices separately ? I suppose 15m is the time
to create btree index on *single* column ?
>
> --
> greg
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Regards,
Oleg
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