Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It'd clearly be worth our while to mention boosting sort_mem as a
> >> helpful thing to do during bulk data load --- it should speed up
> >> btree index creation too. I don't think that tip appears anywhere
> >> in the docs at the moment.
>
> > Added recently, see last sentence:
>
> That's a fairly useless place to put it, though, since someone would
> only think to look at sort_mem if they already had a clue. It should
> be mentioned under bulk data load (in performance tips chapter) and
> perhaps also in dump/restore procedures.
There were several places it is needed, so I just hit the one place ---
feel free to add some more.
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