Re: Performance question: Restore + INDEX - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Performance question: Restore + INDEX
Date
Msg-id 20050926011901.GA11448@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Performance question: Restore + INDEX  (Aldor <an@mediaroot.de>)
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:30:53AM +0100, Aldor wrote:
> What is faster?
>
> 1. CREATE TABLE
> 2. restore data
> 3. CREATE INDEX
>
> or
>
> 1. CREATE TABLE
> 2. CREATE INDEX
> 3. restore data

See "Populating a Database" in the "Performance Tips" chapter of
the documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/populate.html

But instead of taking somebody's word for it, you could simply try
it both ways and see which is faster for yourself.

--
Michael Fuhr

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