Thursday, May 22, 2008

Re: [PERFORM] Index creation time and distribution

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious, what happens if you create the date index first, then
> the clazz one?

It's not due to any cache effect if it's your question. It's mostly
CPU time and changing the order doesn't change the behaviour.

I'll make some tests with 8.3 in a few weeks (I'll be out of town next
week) to see if using PostgreSQL qsort reduces the problem.

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Guillaume

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