Re: State of Beta 2

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: State of Beta 2
Date: 2003-09-23 16:39:43
Message-ID: 20030923133838.I27456@ganymede.hub.org
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com> writes:
> > Well, for me the create index part of the restore is what takes about
> > 3x the time for the data load. Total about 4 hours. The dump takes 1
> > hour.
>
> What sort_mem do you use for the restore? Have you tried increasing it?

I've tried restoring a >5gig database with sort_mem up to 100Meg in size,
and didn't find that it sped up the index creation enough to make a
difference ... shaved off a couple of minutes over the whole reload, so
seconds off of each index ... and that was with the WAL logs also disabled
:(

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