Well, installing gcc 3.3.1 and using -mcpu=v9 didn't help. in fact it made things worse. Unless someone has something clever I'm just gonna stop tinkering with it - my goal was met (it is several orders of magnitude faster than informix ) and the hardware is being replaced in a month or two.
thanks for the ideas / comments. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
