Tim,
> I'm new to Postgres, and am not even the DBA for the system. I'm just a
> sysadmin trying to make things run faster. Every month, we copy over a 25
> million row table from the production server to the reporting server. Total
> size is something like 40 gigabytes.
Are you doing this through COPY files, or some other means?
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Josh Berkus
josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco