William Yu <wyu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If you have enough memory, you can always make a ramdisk to store the > WAL temporarily while you bulk load data. I also temporarily alter the > config to set checkpoint_segments = 1 to use as few pg_xlog files as > possible. Really? That seems pretty counterproductive to me. I've never seen a case where reducing checkpoint_segments increased performance. Checkpoints are expensive, and usually you want 'em far apart. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org