Thread: postgresql 8.4.1 running very slow after converting to UTF8

postgresql 8.4.1 running very slow after converting to UTF8

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Julian Tree
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The same database was running fine in ASCII, but now it is taking up
90% CPU doing a few sum and select.  I tried VACUMM but it didn't
help.  Dumping the database back to ASCII makes it go faster.  Any ideas