Hi Tom,
I've made some tests with your qsort and it DEFINITIVLY help
~3 mn instead of 69.
However this is for 7.3.4 I've got no probs with 7.4b.
Did something change in btree creation?
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:46:09 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: ohp@pyrenet.fr
> Cc: pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever
>
> ohp@pyrenet.fr writes:
> > it took 69 minutes to finish, 75% of this time was devoted to create 2
> > indexes on varchar(2) with value being 'O', 'N' or null;
> > I wonder if it's a configuration matter.
>
> I still say it's either strcoll or qsort's fault. Try swapping in our
> own version of qsort to see if the behavior changes.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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