> > The usual set of tricks is to > increase shared_buffers, > checkpoint_segments, and checkpoint_timeout to cut down That did it. Setting a much higher shared_buffers helped quite a lot. Thank you everybody for your suggestions. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general