Re: [HACKERS] qsort again (was Re: Strange Create Index behaviour)

"Gary Doades" <gpd@gpdnet.co.uk> writes:
> I think the reason I wasn't seeing performance issues with normal sort
> operations is because they use work_mem not maintenance_work_mem which was
> only set to 2048 anyway. Does that sound right?

Very probable.  Do you want to test the theory by jacking that up?  ;-)

			regards, tom lane