On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Sean Shanny wrote: > I should have included this as well: > fsync | on > shared_buffers | 4000 > sort_mem | 64000
For purposes of loading only, you can try turning off fsync, assuming this is a virgin load and you can just re-initdb should bad things happen (OS, postgresql crash, power plug pulled, etc...) Also increasing sort_mem and shared_buffers might help. Especially sort_mem. But turn it back down to something reasonable after the import. And turn fsync back on after the import too. Note you have to restart postgresql to make fsync = off take effect. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
