On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:35:13AM -0600, Jeremy Finzel wrote: > I was able to get it to finish by just waiting awhile. To give you an > idea, the table with no indexes was set logged in 7 minutes. With the gist > index, it took 3 hours but finally finished. It is only writing WAL for > about the first 30 minutes, then it apparently is not writing any more WAL > but takes very long to finish. An idea to reduce the activity would be to temporarily run PostgreSQL on scissors, by for example disabling full_page_writes and wal_level = minimal, but don't do that if other sessions are running in parallel, and take proper backups before doing it. -- Michael
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