is this expected or am i on crack?

From: Chris Humphries <chumphries(at)siliconinc(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: is this expected or am i on crack?
Date: 2001-02-18 10:54:08
Message-ID: 20010218025408.A19121@mail.com
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hello all,

first off, some information:
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the table:
Table "facts"
Attribute | Type | Modifier
-------------+--------------+----------
keyword | varchar(80) |
description | varchar(255) |
url | varchar(255) |

the sql:
select keyword from facts as f1
where 1 <> (select count(*) from facts as f2 where f1.keyword = f2.keyword)
order by keyword;

my system:
Linux kernel 2.2.x
p166
32M ram
200M+ swap
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it took about 65 minutes to complete. i know that it is doing alot of work,
but it there a way that it could be sped up, like something i could configure
or something that i could do to make it faster?

just looking to see if the time it took to take this is to be expected?
postmaster was using from 78-98% of the cpu for the whole time.

in hind site i wish i would have made keyword not null primary key...
*sigh*, learn from mistakes i guess. now have to fix the duplicates and
move all the rows into a new table with keyword as primary key...

thanks for any help,
and developers: thanks for developing a real non-toy database for the masses,

-chris humphries

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