Re: [HACKERS] tsearch vs. fulltextindex

Good point.  Some said fulltextindex was better for certain queries, but
if no one can come up with such a case, we can remove it.

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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just done some performance comparisons between contrib/fulltextindex
> and contrib/tsearch.  Even with every optimisation I can think of for
> fulltextindex, tsearch is 300 times faster ;)
>
> Plus it doesn't require a separate table or complicated queries.
>
> I think we should strongly encourage people to use tsearch instead of
> fulltextindex.  I hope to commit some change to fulltextindex in the near
> future, so I'll add a note to the readme then.
>
> Chris
>
> eg:
>
> australia=# explain analyse select food_id, category_id, description from
> test_foods where not pending and fulltextidx ## 'baskin&fruit';
> NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:
>
> Index Scan using fulltextidx_idx on test_foods  (cost=0.00..45.93 rows=11
> width=40) (actual time=0.22..1.53 rows=8 loops=1)
> Total runtime: 1.70 msec
>
> EXPLAIN
> australia=# explain analyze SELECT distinct(f.food_id), f.category_id,
> f.description, f.brand FROM food_foods f, food_foods_fti f0, food_foods_fti
> f1 WHERE NOT f.pending AND f0.id=f.oid AND f0.string ~ '^baskin' AND
> f1.id=f.oid AND f1.string ~ '^fruit';
> NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:
>
> Unique  (cost=12.10..12.11 rows=1 width=66) (actual time=532.11..532.25
> rows=8 loops=1)
>   ->  Sort  (cost=12.10..12.10 rows=1 width=66) (actual time=532.10..532.14
> rows=8 loops=1)
>         ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..12.09 rows=1 width=66) (actual
> time=292.41..531.89 rows=8 loops=1)
>               ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..6.07 rows=1 width=8) (actual
> time=292.35..531.35 rows=8 loops=1)
>                     ->  Index Scan using food_foods_fti_string_idx on
> food_foods_fti f0  (cost=0.00..3.03 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.07..0.45
> rows=23 loops=1)
>                     ->  Index Scan using food_foods_fti_string_idx on
> food_foods_fti f1  (cost=0.00..3.03 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.04..16.52
> rows=1092 loops=23)
>               ->  Index Scan using food_foods_oid_idx on food_foods f
> (cost=0.00..6.01 rows=1 width=58) (actual time=0.03..0.04 rows=1 loops=8)
> Total runtime: 532.49 msec
>
> EXPLAIN
>
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