On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Mike Broers <mbroers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, maintenance_work_mem is set to the default of
> 16MB on the host that was taking over an hour as well as on the host that
> was taking less than 10 minutes. I tried setting it to 1GB on the faster
> test server and it reduced the time from around 6-7 minutes to about 3:30.
> this is a good start, if there are any other suggestions please let me know
> - is there any query to check estimated time remaining on long running
> transactions?
Sadly, no. I suspect that coming up with a good algorithm for that is
a suitable topic for a PhD thesis. :-(
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