On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What, if any, other load should be placed on the underlying table during the
> test?
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> I ask because CIC statements that run in seconds on our staging machine can
> take many hours on our production machine, when most of the access is just
> reads, though those reads may have been part of a larger transaction that
> did updates elsewhere.
That sounds like the CIC is just blocked waiting for long-lived
transactions to go away. There isn't much that changes to the sorting
algorithm can do about that.
Cheers,
Jeff