Re: restore time: sort_mem vs. checkpoing_segments

Vivek Khera wrote:
> And the winner is... checkpoint_segments.
>
> Restore of a significanly big database (~19.8GB restored) shows nearly
> no time difference depending on sort_mem when checkpoint_segments is
> large. There are quite a number of tables and indexes. The restore
> was done from a pg_dump -Fc dump of one database.
>
> All tests with 16KB page size, 30k shared buffers, sort_mem=8192, PG
> 7.4b2 on FreeBSD 4.8.
>
> 3 checkpoint_segments restore time: 14983 seconds
> 50 checkpoint_segments restore time: 11537 seconds
> 50 checkpoint_segments, sort_mem 131702 restore time: 11262 seconds

With the new warning about too-frequent checkpoints, people have actual
feedback to encourage them to increase checkpoint_segments. One issue
is that it is likely to recommend increasing checkpoint_segments during
restore, even if there is no value to it being large during normal
server operation. Should that be decumented?

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