On May 24, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Todd A. Cook wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Todd A. Cook" <tcook@blackducksoftware.com> writes:
>>> I have found that increasing maintenance_work_mem can decrease index
>>> build speed on large tables:
>> You should probably re-measure when 8.2 comes out; we've fixed a
>> number
>> of performance issues in the sorting code that might cause that.
>
> Thanks. I'll do that. If I can, I'll try it sooner on a build
> from CVS.
If you'll be messing around with CVS, you might also want to try this
patch: http://jim.nasby.net/misc/pgsqlcompression/compress-sort.patch
(which was written by someone else). It hacks compression into the on-
disk sort code, which has shown a 50% speed improvement on my
machine. It should be fine to use for loading a database, but you
wouldn't want to leave it in for serious use (IIRC there's some cases
it flat-out doesn't handle right now).
You could probably apply that to 8.1.4 as well if you wanted to; it
should be fine for just loading the database.
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