On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> Yeah, it would help during the initial scan >> of the old rel, but not during the sort or reindex steps. > > As Greg points out, the sort is not really of concern (for now).
Though I was surprised the reindex isn't an equally big problem. It might matter a lot what the shape of the schema is. If you have lots of indexes the index wal might be larger than the table rebuild. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
