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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Charlie Savage <cfis@interserv.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sort performance on large tables
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:26:21 -0500
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Charlie Savage <cfis@interserv.com> writes:
> Thus the time decreased from 8486 seconds to 5279 seconds - which is a 
> nice improvement.  However, that still leaves postgresql about 9 times 
> slower.

BTW, what data type are you sorting, exactly?  If it's a string type,
what is your LC_COLLATE setting?

			regards, tom lane



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