>>>>> "BM" == Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
BM> Vivek, you reported recently that increasing sort_mem and
BM> checkpoint_segments increased performance. Can you run a test to see
BM> how much of that improvement was just because of increasing
BM> checkpoint_segments?
i was thinking just the same thing myself.
i'll start that run now.