Re: Disabling/Enabling index before bulk loading

From: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ravi Krishna <srkrishna(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PG mailing List <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Disabling/Enabling index before bulk loading
Date: 2018-07-10 22:58:44
Message-ID: CANu8Fiw1owWzLV8Pt9s4ofJtdjz1=EzbUhL+fLNd6GiwARxbrA@mail.gmail.com
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> We recently did a test on COPY and found that on large tables (47 million
rows , 20GB of raw data) the
> difference in COPY with 16 indexes...

*I am very suspicious of why you need 16 indexes. Are you sure all those
indexes are actually being utilized?*

*Try executing the attached query, You may find find some are really not
needed.*

--
*Melvin Davidson*
*Maj. Database & Exploration Specialist*
*Universe Exploration Command – UXC*
Employment by invitation only!

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