Re: poor performance when recreating constraints on large tables

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mike Broers <mbroers(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: poor performance when recreating constraints on large tables
Date: 2011-06-08 19:28:56
Message-ID: BANLkTi=zFRZb5AKXakVxvZqO=QWWCEGKZw@mail.gmail.com
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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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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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