Re: WIP: preloading of ispell dictionary

Nicolas Barbier <nicolas.barbier@gmail.com>

From: Nicolas Barbier <nicolas.barbier@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-03-23T07:52:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
2010/3/23 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:

> 2010/3/23 Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>:
>
>> The fundamental issue seems to be in the slow initialization of
>> dictionaries. If so, how about adding a pre-complile tool to convert
>> a dictionary into a binary file, and each backend simply mmap it?
>
> It means loading about 25MB from disc. for every first tsearch query -
> sorry, I don't believe can be good.

The operating system's VM subsystem should make that a non-problem.
"Loading" is also not the word I would use to indicate what mmap does.

Nicolas