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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: pgsql-hackers list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Index creation takes for ever > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > -- Olivier PRENANT Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work) 6, Chemin d'Harraud Turrou +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax) 31190 AUTERIVE +33-6-07-63-80-64 (GSM) FRANCE Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make your life a dream, make your dream a reality. (St Exupery) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org