Re: problem creating hash index

From: Mathieu Arnold <arn_mat(at)club-internet(dot)fr>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: problem creating hash index
Date: 2000-09-05 14:52:11
Message-ID: 39B5089B.C605CA20@club-internet.fr
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HENAFF Mari-mai FTRD/DMI/LAN wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem creating a hash index : it's too slow (it takes several
> days, i stopped it before the end).
> When i create a b-tree index on the same field, it takes approximately
> twenty minutes.
> The type of the field indexed is Varchar(16). The table indexed contains 20
> MO of rows.

what's the difference between b-tree and hashed indexes ?

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Mathieu Arnold

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