Re: Sort time

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, pginfo wrote:

> > On my not terribly powerful or memory filled box, I got a time of about
> > 16s after going through a couple iterations of raising sort_mem and
> > watching if it made temp files (which is probably a good idea to check as
> > well).  The data size ended up being in the vicinity of 100 meg in my
> > case.
>
> The time is very good!
> It is very good idea to watch the temp files.
> I started the sort_mem to 32 mb (it is 256 on the production system)
> and I see 3 temp files. The first is ~ 1.8 mb. The second is ~55 mb and the last is ~150
> mb.

As a note, the same data loaded into a non-"C" locale database took about
42 seconds on the same machine, approximately 2.5x as long.