>My postgres instance is based on docker image postgres:11 and runs on my MacBook Pro i7 16GB.
How much ram and such did you give to this vm?
>To my surprise, postgres 11 is extremely slow when creating a full text index. I added a column of tsvector type and tried to create an index on that column. Pg could not finish creating a GIN index for a long time and I had to cancel the execution.I then tried to create a partial full text index for 500 rows and it took postgres 2 to 3 minutes to create the index.
Did you customize any config? maintenance_work_mem specifically would be relevant to the time to create an index and default value is only 64MB. Especially if you are running a spinning hard drive and not ssd, then this could be problematic.