> And the patch that was applied gives the same result.
>
> What is more, I am not seeing the reported speedup - in fact
> I am seeing no speedup worth mentioning.
>
> This is on XP-Pro, with default postgres settings. The test
> sets were somewhat larger than thos Magnus used - basically
> TPC-H lineitems and orders tables (6m and 1.5m rows respectively).
First, that was Merlin and not me :-)
Second, it didn't really show any improvement for him either in his
normal test. But when he re-ran it with just the count(*) test it showed
improvement. Did you run a count(*) test or some other test?
//Magnus