Funny, there is/was just a whole thread about that on hackers. There seem to
be some agreement that this will be reworked/faster in 6.6, but you cannot
avoid it currently. The main cause for this is the usage of indeces.
Did you pass -o -F to the postmaster? It can improve the speed of PostgreSQL
dramatically.
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