From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Index creation takes for ever |
Date: | 2003-08-30 15:11:11 |
Message-ID: | 200308301511.h7UFBBH04513@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr writes:
> > This is on unixware 7 (both 7.3.4 and 7.4b)
>
> > I'm on the FR language (I'll re-initdb whith lang=C to see what happens)
>
> Okay. If you find it's still slow in C locale, the next thing to try
> would be forcing use of our own qsort, as we already do for Solaris.
> You'd need to tweak this bit in configure.in:
>
> # Solaris has a very slow qsort in certain cases, so we replace it.
> case $host_os in solaris*)
> AC_LIBOBJ(qsort) ;;
> esac
>
> I'm not sure why it's done that way though. 'Twould be better to let
> the per-platform template files determine it.
The macro has to be in the configure.in file, but we could flag whether
the macro should be used in the template file. I have avoided adding a
variable just for one platform because it just adds an extra level of
abstraction for little benefit.
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