> We have a table that's > 2billion rows big and growing fast. We've setup
> monthly partitions for it. Upon running the first of many select * from
> bigTable insert into partition statements (330million rows per month) the
> entire box eventually goes out to lunch.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance
Did you create the indexes on the partition before or after inserting the
330M rows into it ?
What is your hardware config, where is xlog ?
