Wes <wespvp@syntegra.com> writes:
> My database reload is currently taking about 6 hours to load the data, 42
> hours to reindex, and about another 40 hours or so to check the foreign key
> constraints (about 1.2 billion rows).
What PG version is this, and what have you got maintenance_work_mem set to?
Undersized m_w_m would hurt both index build and FK checking ...
regards, tom lane