On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 186_archives=# \d ndict7
> >          Table "public.ndict7"
> >  Column  |  Type   |     Modifiers
> > ---------+---------+--------------------
> >  url_id  | integer | not null default 0
> >  word_id | integer | not null default 0
> >  intag   | integer | not null default 0
> > Indexes:
> >     "n7_url" btree (url_id)
> >     "n7_word" btree (word_id)
> >
> >
> > The slowdown is the LIKE condition, as the ndict[78] word_id conditions
> > return near instantly when run individually, and when I run the 'url/LIKE'
> > condition, it takes "forever" ...
>
> Does it help to CLUSTER url.url?  Is your data being loaded in so
> identical values used by LIKE are next to each other?
I'm loading up a MySQL 4.1 database right now, along side of a PgSQL 7.4
one WITHOUT OIDs ... should take several days to fully load, but it will
be interesting to compare them all ...

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