On mån, 2011-02-14 at 10:11 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> But before expending time on that, I'd want to see some evidence that
> it's actually helpful for production situations. I'm a bit dubious
> that you're going to gain much here.
If you want to build an index on a 500GB table and you have 1TB RAM,
then being able to use >>1GB maintenance_work_mem can only be good, no?