On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Jan Wielgus <ja...@tlen.pl> wrote:
> So, there is apparently a problem with vector concatenating - the indexes
> don't work then. I tried to use the vectors separately and to make 'OR'
> comparison between single vector @@ ts_query checks,
> but it didn't help very much (performance was better, but still over 20 sec):
> ...
> (participant.participant_tsv @@
> to_tsquery('simple',to_tsquerystring('Abigail'))) OR (person.person_tsv @@
> to_tsquery('simple',to_tsquerystring('Abigail')))
> ...
>
> Is there a way to make this work with better performance? Or is it necessary
> to create a single vector that contains data from multiple tables and then
> add an index on it? It would be so far problematic for us,
> because we are using multiple complex queries with variable number of
> selected columns. I know that another solution might be an union among
> multiple queries, every of which uses a single vector,
> but this solution is inconvenient too.
Only something of the form 'indexed-column indexable-operator value'
is going to be indexable. So when you concatenate two columns from
different tables - as you say - not indexable.
In general, OR-based conditions that cross table boundaries tend to be
expensive, because they have to be applied only after performing the
join. You can't know for sure looking only at a row from one table
whether or not it will be needed, so you have to join them all and
then filter the results.
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