pgbench initialization has been going on for almost 5 hours now and still stuck before vacuum starts .. something is definitely wrong as I don't remember it took so long first time I created the db....
pgbench initialization with a high scale factor, like the -s 10000 I frequently use, does take quite a few hours. you need a large maintenance_work_mem, or the create index phase will take a really long time to index the 150GB worth of tables its created.
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