Re: Re : Solaris Performance - Profiling (Solved)

From: Mark kirkwood <markir(at)slingshot(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re : Solaris Performance - Profiling (Solved)
Date: 2002-04-04 07:45:29
Message-ID: 1017906331.1266.6.camel@spikey.slithery.org
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On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 06:41, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> That is shocking. I have the Solaris 8 source code here so if people
> want info on exactly what is done in their qsort() routine, I can supply
> that. How can a routine change a query from 1 hour to 6 seconds?
>
I am considering raising a bug with Sun ( I have a simple test c
program, that runs about 100x faster with BSD qsort.. enough to prove
the point for the support analyst)

However considering this problem seems to have been around since 1996, I
am not all that hopeful of persuading them to alter it.

regards

Mark

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