On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.0\data>dir/s | grep 16525
> 09/15/2011  07:46 PM       224,641,024 16525
>
> c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.0\data>dir/s | grep 16526
> 09/15/2011  07:49 PM       268,451,840 16526

That's not surprising at all.
Hashes need to be bigger to avoid collisions.

What's more interesting than index creation, is index maintainance and
access costs.
In my experience, btree beats hash.
I haven't tried with 9.1, though.

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