On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:21 AM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I mentioned in February and March that you should plan to set shared_buffers > to fit the indexes currently being updated. > The following command gives me select pg_size_pretty (pg_indexes_size('test_table')); pg_size_pretty ---------------- 5216 MB (1 row) So right now, the indexes on that table are taking about 5.2 GB, if a machine has 512 GB of RAM and SSDs, is it safe to assume I can achieve the same update that takes 1.5 minutes in less than 5 seconds while having 600 million rows of data without partitioning?