On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 11:01, Josh Berkus wrote: > > Gist indexes take a long time to create as compared > > to normal indexes is there any way to speed them up ? > > > > (for example by modifying sort_mem or something temporarily ) > > More sort_mem will indeed help. How so? sort_mem improves index creation for B+-tree because we implement bulk loading; there is no implementation of bulk loading for GiST, so I don't see how sort_mem will help. -Neil
