On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, it would help during the initial scan
>> of the old rel, but not during the sort or reindex steps.
>
> As Greg points out, the sort is not really of concern (for now).
Though I was surprised the reindex isn't an equally big problem. It
might matter a lot what the shape of the schema is. If you have lots
of indexes the index wal might be larger than the table rebuild.
--
greg
