Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > Anyway, to bring some real info I just profiled PostgreSQL 8.1beta > doing an index create on a 2960296 row table (3 columns, table size > 317MB).
3 columns in the index you mean? What were the column datatypes? Any null values? > The number 1 bottleneck with 41% of user time is comparetup_index. > ... > The thing is, I can't see anything in comparetup_index() that could > take much time. The index_getattr and heap_getattr macros can be annoyingly expensive. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org