On May 25, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> That's true at the level of DDL operations, but AFAIK we could
> parallelize table-loading and index-creation steps pretty effectively
> --- and that's where all the time goes.
I would be happy with parallel builds of the indexes of a given
table. That way you have just one scan of the whole table to build
all its indexes.
