RE: long runtimes cured by cutting hash_area_size by 90% - ???

Just now catching up on email and though this question may be a bit late, what are some of the nasties you refer to?

Larry G. Elkins
elkinsl_at_flash.net

> Was this a parallel query ? Very nasty things
> can happen with PQ and multiple concurrent
> hashes. (And just plain nasty things can
> happen with concurrent hashes and serial
> queries).
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Lewis
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

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