Re: Set maintenance work mem for pg_restore

Thanks for this and the other suggestions. This is exactly what I was
looking for.

Deron

On 12/18/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Deron escribió:
> > 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.
>
> You can specify it via PGOPTIONS:
>
> $ PGOPTIONS='-c maintenance_work_mem=1GB' psql
> Welcome to psql 8.2.5, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type: \copyright for distribution terms
> \h for help with SQL commands
> \? for help with psql commands
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> \q to quit
>
> alvherre=# show maintenance_work_mem ;
> maintenance_work_mem
> ----------------------
> 1GB
> (1 row)
>
> alvherre=# \q
>
> $ psql
> Welcome to psql 8.2.5, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type: \copyright for distribution terms
> \h for help with SQL commands
> \? for help with psql commands
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> \q to quit
>
> alvherre=# show maintenance_work_mem ;
> maintenance_work_mem
> ----------------------
> 16MB
> (1 row)
>
>
>
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