Re: [PERFORM] name search query speed

[Ken Egervari]

I'm not sure what the answer is but maybe I can help?  Would clustering the 
name index make this faster? I thought that would bunch up the pages so the 
names were more or less in order, which would improve search time.  Just a 
guess though.

Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremiah Jahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "postgres performance" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:38 AM
Subject: [PERFORM] name search query speed


I have about 5M names stored on my DB. Currently the searches are very
quick unless, they are on a very common last name ie. SMITH. The Index
is always used, but I still hit 10-20 seconds on a SMITH or Jones
search, and I average about 6 searches a second and max out at about
30/s. Any suggestions on how I could arrange things to make this search
quicker? I have 4gb of mem on a raid 5 w/ 3 drives. I'm hoping that I
can increase this speed w/o a HW upgrade.
thanx,
-jj-

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