On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:51:14AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > >Which one is better (performance/easier to use), > >tsearch2 or fulltextindex? > >there is an example how to use fulltextindex in the > >techdocs, but I checked the contrib/fulltextindex > >package, there is a WARNING that fulltextindex is > >much slower than tsearch2. but tsearch2 seems > >complex to use, and I can not find a good example. > >Which one I should use? Any suggestions? > > I believe I wrote that warning :) > > Tsearch2 is what you should use. Yes, it's more complicated but it's > HEAPS faster and seriously powerful.
Does anyone have any metrics on how fast tsearch2 actually is? I tried it on a synthetic dataset of a million documents of a hundred words each and while insertions were impressively fast I gave up on the search after 10 minutes. Broken? Unusable slow? This was on the last 7.4 release candidate. Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
