В Чтв, 22.04.2004, в 17:54, Tom Lane пишет:
> Eduardo Almeida <edalmeida@yahoo.com> writes:
> > About 7hs:30min to load the data and 16:09:25 to
> > create the indexes
>
> You could probably improve the index-create time by temporarily
> increasing sort_mem. It wouldn't be unreasonable to give CREATE INDEX
> several hundred meg to work in. (You don't want sort_mem that big
> normally, because there may be many sorts happening in parallel,
> but in a data-loading context there'll just be one active sort.)
Doesn't this provide a reason for CREATE INDEX not to honour sort_mem?
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Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
