Re: Restore of pg_dump taking a long time... - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Todd A. Cook" <tcook@blackducksoftware.com> writes:
>> I have found that increasing maintenance_work_mem can decrease index
>> build speed on large tables:
>
> You should probably re-measure when 8.2 comes out; we've fixed a number
> of performance issues in the sorting code that might cause that.

Thanks.  I'll do that.  If I can, I'll try it sooner on a build
from CVS.

-- todd