Re: Strange Create Index behaviour

From: Gary Doades <gpd(at)gpdnet(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Strange Create Index behaviour
Date: 2006-02-15 21:11:15
Message-ID: 43F398F3.30105@gpdnet.co.uk
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Tom Lane wrote:
> shared_buffers is unlikely to impact index build time noticeably in
> recent PG releases. maintenance_work_mem would affect it a lot, though.
> What setting were you using for that?
>

Also, i tried upping maintenance_work_mem to 65536 and it didn't make
much difference (maybe 10% faster for the "normal" cases). Upping the
shared_buffers *definitely* makes the bad cases worse though, but I
agree I don't see why...

Regards,
Gary.

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