On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 18:30 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > For btree indexes, there is a temporary copy of the index data, which > will go wherever you have arranged for temp files to go. (I think that > easy user control of this may be new for 8.3, though.) In 8.2.5 is there a way to control this? I noticed that when I create a new index etc, it will hit the os disk (that's where the main tablespace is located but no data is actually being stored there except for PG's template1/0 etc table) I would rather it hit the Raid Array. I looked at the postgres.conf file but didn't see anything obvious to point out the temp location.. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly