"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> The aggregation is a great deal worse as well. I suspect that for some >> reason the comparison operations involved in the sorting and grouping >> are much slower on the FC3 machine. What are the data types of the >> leading sort keys ... >> > Data types are:
> post_id integer > topic_id integer > topic_title character(255) (I have no idea why ;)) > forum_status and forum_id are smallints... > The rest are pretty basic integers. Hm. What is the data like --- in particular, are the topic_ids unique in the data processed by the sort? I'm wondering how often the sort/group comparisons would even look at columns beyond the first two ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq