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