| From: | Deron <fecastle(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
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| To: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Set maintenance work mem for pg_restore | 
| Date: | 2007-12-18 20:30:12 | 
| Message-ID: | ad143ba80712181230q3b5002b5wa1a90b304ef0e2f2@mail.gmail.com | 
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I see a lot of suggestions to increase maintenance work mem if running
pg_restore.  This is to help with the index creation and initial sort from
what I understand.  A few tests I ran does show this helps.
Does anyone know if there is a way to only "temporarily" set this setting?
I have some DBs that are bloated and I have a script to run off hours (I
don't like working late).  This uses pg_dump and pg_restore to recover the
disk space.  I found that this is usually faster than 'vacuum full', and is
useful in some cases.
I know I can set this for my current session dynamically "set
maintenance_work_mem = xxxxx", but it seems that the only way I can do this
for pg_restore is to update the configuration, reload and then change it
back when the script completes and reload again.
Thanks
Deron
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