Thanks for the suggestion, maintenance_work_mem is set to the default of 16MB on the host that was taking over an hour as well as on the host that was taking less than 10 minutes. I tried setting it to 1GB on the faster test server and it reduced the time from around 6-7 minutes to about 3:30. this is a good start, if there are any other suggestions please let me know - is there any query to check estimated time remaining on long running transactions?
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Tom Lane
<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Mike Broers <
mbroers@gmail.com> writes:
> I am in the process of implementing cascade on delete constraints
> retroactively on rather large tables so I can cleanly remove deprecated
> data. The problem is recreating some foreign key constraints on tables of
> 55 million rows+ was taking much longer than the maintenance window I had,
> and now I am looking for tricks to speed up the process, hopefully there is
> something obvious i am overlooking.
regards, tom lane