>>>>> "RT" == Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
RT> hmm... i wonder what would happen if you pushed your sort_mem higher...
RT> on some of our development boxes and upgrade scripts, i push the
RT> sort_mem to 102400 and sometimes even higher depending on the box. this
RT> really speeds up my restores quit a bit (and is generally safe as i make
RT> sure there isn't any other activity going on at the time)
I was just checking, and I already ran test with larger sort_mem. the
checkpoint segments made more of a difference...