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Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently

От: Hannu Krosing
Тема: Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently
Дата: ,
Msg-id: 1268860727.19220.1089.camel@hvost
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Ответ на: Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Greg Smith)
Ответы: Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Andres Freund)
Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Justin Pitts)
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Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Rob Wultsch, )
 Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Ben Chobot, )
 Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Greg Smith, )
  Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Tom Lane, )
   Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Rob Wultsch, )
    Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Greg Smith, )
     Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Andres Freund, )
      Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Alvaro Herrera, )
       Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Greg Smith, )
        Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Hannu Krosing, )
         Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Andres Freund, )
         Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Justin Pitts, )
          Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Hannu Krosing, )
           Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently  (Justin Pitts, ) 
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 16:49 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Andres Freund escribió:
> >
> >
> >> I find it way much easier to believe such issues exist on a tables in
> >> constrast to indexes. The likelihood to get sequential accesses on an index is
> >> small enough on a big table to make it unlikely to matter much.
> >>
> >
> > Vacuum walks indexes sequentially, for one.
> >
>
> That and index-based range scans were the main two use-cases I was
> concerned would be degraded by interleaving index builds, compared with
> doing them in succession.

I guess that tweaking file systems to allocate in bigger chunks help
here ? I know that xfs can be tuned in that regard, but how about other
common file systems like ext3 ?

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