Re: [ADMIN] Create Index Performance Issue

2008-06-06 Thread Rudolf van der Leeden
Tom, your hint was 100% correct. BINGO! The setting of lc_locale and lc_ctype was 'en_us' instead of 'C' as on the other machine. Now it works perfectly OK and with identical execution times on both machines. Thanks for your help and best regards, Rudolf VanderLeeden Am 04.06.2008 um

[ADMIN] Create Index Performance Issue

2008-06-04 Thread Rudolf van der Leeden
Hi, I'm currently testing a 25G Postgres 8.3.0 database on Apple Xserve/ Intel with Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard). There are two identical machines with identical configurations (hw and sw). Running a pg_restore of a binary backup file (3.8 GB) on both machines gives the following results:

Re: [ADMIN] Create Index Performance Issue

2008-06-04 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:43:24AM +0200, Rudolf van der Leeden wrote: I'm currently testing a 25G Postgres 8.3.0 database on Apple Xserve/ Intel with Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard). There are two identical machines with identical configurations (hw and sw). Running a pg_restore of a binary

Re: [ADMIN] Create Index Performance Issue

2008-06-04 Thread Tom Lane
Rudolf van der Leeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ different times to build a varchar index on allegedly identical installations ] Perhaps one is using C locale and the other is not? strcmp() vs strcoll() is a pretty big hit. In general it'd be worth dumping out the whole contents of