Re: Performance of CLUSTER

From: Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com>
To: Mark Thornton <mthornton(at)optrak(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance of CLUSTER
Date: 2012-06-11 13:42:52
Message-ID: 4FD5F5DC.3080507@optionshouse.com
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On 06/10/2012 03:20 AM, Mark Thornton wrote:

> 4. 3980922 rows, 1167MB, 276s
> 5. 31843368 rows, 9709MB, ~ 10 hours

Just judging based on the difference between these two, it would appear
to be from a lot of temp space thrashing. An order of magnitude more
rows shouldn't take over 100x longer to cluster, even with GIST. What's
your maintenance_work_mem setting?

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