On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:11 AM Michael Lewis <mle...@entrata.com> wrote:
> >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. > I apologize for my top post. :D Won't happen again
