Text search on issue queues is slow and sometimes WSODs
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<h2>Tip for anyone who's getting white screens while trying to search: The more of the other filters you can complete, the faster your search is likely to run. I try to always filtering by version for Drupal core issues.</h2>
<p>Text search on issue queues can bring the site down. To mitigate the problem there is a script in place at the moment, which kills a query if it is being executed for more than some specific amount of time. As a side effect of that, when the query is killed, users get white screen instead of the search results. </p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=config+validate">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=config+validate</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=responsive">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=responsive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=pdoexception&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=pdoexception&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=password">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=password</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=hook_update_N&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=hook_update_N&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=hook_help&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=hook_help&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=doxygen&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=doxygen&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=PHP+Fatal+error%3A++Class+Drupal%5CCore%5CTypedData%5CPlugin%5CDataType%5CLanguageReference+contains+1+abstract+method+and+must+therefore+be">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=PHP+Fatal+error%3A++Class+Drupal\Core\TypedData\Plugin\DataType\LanguageReference+contains+1+abstract+method+and+must+therefore+be</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=release">https://drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=release</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/search?text=profile">https://drupal.org/project/issues/search?text=profile</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=translation">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=translation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=permission">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=permission</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=mobile+theme">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=mobile+theme</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=migrate">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=migrate</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=hide+upload+button&version=8.x">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=hide+upload+button&version=8.x</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=change+notice">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=change+notice</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/api?text=drupal_static">https://drupal.org/project/issues/api?text=drupal_static</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=doctrine">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=doctrine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=drupal_static">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=drupal_static</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=format_interval&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=format_interval&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=hook_date_formats">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=hook_date_formats</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=pager&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=pager&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=phpunit&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=phpunit&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=simpletest&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=simpletest&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/pubdlcnt?text=not+counted">https://drupal.org/project/issues/pubdlcnt?text=not+counted</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/search?text=profiles">https://drupal.org/project/issues/search?text=profiles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=Style+RSS+Feed+requires+a+row+style+but+the+row+plugin+is+invalid&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=Style+RSS+Feed+requires+a+row+style+but+the+row+plugin+is+invalid&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues?text=comment_count_unpublished&status=Open">https://drupal.org/project/issues?text=comment_count_unpublished&status=Open</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=update+process&version=8.x">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=update+process&version=8.x</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=Undefined+offset%3A+0&status=All">https://drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=Undefined+offset%3A+0&status=All</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=roles+field">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=roles+field</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=Missing+configuration+file&status=All">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=Missing+configuration+file&status=All</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=cache+tags">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=cache+tags</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=cache+tags&version=8.x">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=cache+tags&version=8.x</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=remove+language&status=7&version=8.x">https://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=remove+language&status=7&version=8.x</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=duplicate+when+sorting+by+multiple+value+field&status=All&priorities=All&categories=All&version=All&component=All">https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=duplicate+when+sorting+by+multiple+value+field&status=All&priorities=All&categories=All&version=All&component=All</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=Grouped+filter+OR&status=All&priorities=All&categories=All&version=All&component=All">https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/views?text=Grouped+filter+OR&status=All&priorities=All&categories=All&version=All&component=All</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?text=Missing+bundle+property+on+entity+of+type+taxonomy_term&assigned=&submitted=&project_issue_followers=&issue_tags_op=%3D&issue_tags=">https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?text=Missing+bundle+property+on+entity+of+type+taxonomy_term&assigned=&submitted=&project_issue_followers=&issue_tags_op=%3D&issue_tags=</a></li>
</ul>
<p>We need to come up with a plan how to "fix" the text search. Issue queues are Views, which use Search API DB.</p>
<h3>Potential solutions:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improve Search API DB:</li>
<ul>
<li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_db/issues/2155767" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2155767: Improve the speed of full text searches by using a single index table</a></span></li>
<li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_db/issues/2170681" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2170681: Remove a temporary and a filesort from text queries</a></span></li>
<li>Change the subquery to a JOIN</li>
</ul>
<li>Switching to Solr 4 (using Solr 3 would introduce a lag of a few minutes)</li>
<li>Blacklist common words from the index</li>
<li>Improve our tokenizing, for less words.</li>
</ul>
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