Mark Dilger <markdil...@yahoo.com> writes: > I am running this code on Windows 2003. It > appears that postgres has in src/port/dirent.c > a port of readdir() that internally uses the > WIN32_FIND_DATA structure, and the function > FindNextFile() to iterate through the directory. > Looking at the documentation, it seems that > this function does collect file creation time, > last access time, last write time, file size, etc., > much like performing a stat.
> In my case, the code is iterating through roughly > 56,000 files. Apparently, this is doing the > equivalent of a stat on each of them. That would explain it all right. I think you're basically screwed here, because so far as I can see Windows doesn't provide any means to enumerate a directory's contents without fetching that info; at least http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364232(v=vs.85).aspx doesn't seem to offer any substitutes for FindFirstFile/FindNextFile. It's barely possible that using FindFirstFileEx with fInfoLevelId = FindExInfoBasic would save enough to be useful, except that that option doesn't exist on Windows 2003 anyway. Consider using another operating system ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
