On 5/22/2014 11:46 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
This does not appear the domain of PostgreSQL as much as the domain of your OS and network layer.
I think he's asking for a throttle on create index, so OTHER WAL activity would proceed at full speed, but the CREATE INDEX would somehow constrain itself to not generating more than N blocks/second
the answer is, no, there's no such feature. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast