Re: [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

Eduardo Almeida <edalmeida@yahoo.com> writes:
> About 7hs:30min to load the data and 16:09:25 to
> create the indexes

You could probably improve the index-create time by temporarily
increasing sort_mem.  It wouldn't be unreasonable to give CREATE INDEX
several hundred meg to work in.  (You don't want sort_mem that big
normally, because there may be many sorts happening in parallel,
but in a data-loading context there'll just be one active sort.)

            regards, tom lane