WAL and problems with loading a large table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martin Weinberg
Subject WAL and problems with loading a large table
Date
Msg-id 200106211213.IAA06666@osprey.astro.umass.edu
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I'm trying to load a 200GB table.  WAL seems to be using many
GB of disk space and slowing down the load.  I tried "-F" and
fync=off in the postmaster.conf (these are supposed to be the
same, right?) but these don't inhibit the WAL use.

What is the right approach here?

Thanks!

--Martin

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