Tom Lane wrote:
"Todd A. Cook" <tcook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:I have found that increasing maintenance_work_mem can decrease index build speed on large tables:You should probably re-measure when 8.2 comes out; we've fixed a number of performance issues in the sorting code that might cause that.
Thanks. I'll do that. If I can, I'll try it sooner on a build from CVS. -- todd
