On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Alexander Korotkov <aekorot...@gmail.com>wrote:

> attached patch implementing "fast scan" technique for GIN. This is second
> patch of GIN improvements, see the 1st one here:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/capphfduxv-il7aedwpw0w5fxrwgakfxijwm63_hzujacrxn...@mail.gmail.com
> This patch allow to skip parts of posting trees when their scan is not
> necessary. In particular, it solves "frequent_term & rare_term" problem of
> FTS.
> It introduces new interface method pre_consistent which behaves like
> consistent, but:
> 1) allows false positives on input (check[])
> 2) allowed to return false positives
>
> Some example: "frequent_term & rare_term" becomes pretty fast.
>
> create table test as (select to_tsvector('english', 'bbb') as v from
> generate_series(1,1000000));
> insert into test (select to_tsvector('english', 'ddd') from
> generate_series(1,10));
> create index test_idx on test using gin (v);
>
> postgres=# explain analyze select * from test where v @@
> to_tsquery('english', 'bbb & ddd');
>                                                       QUERY PLAN
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Bitmap Heap Scan on test  (cost=942.75..7280.63 rows=5000 width=17)
> (actual time=0.458..0.461 rows=10 loops=1)
>    Recheck Cond: (v @@ '''bbb'' & ''ddd'''::tsquery)
>    ->  Bitmap Index Scan on test_idx  (cost=0.00..941.50 rows=5000
> width=0) (actual time=0.449..0.449 rows=10 loops=1)
>          Index Cond: (v @@ '''bbb'' & ''ddd'''::tsquery)
>  Total runtime: 0.516 ms
> (5 rows)
>

Attached version of patch has some refactoring and bug fixes.

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With best regards,
Alexander Korotkov.

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