Re: Multicolun index creation never completes on 9.0.1/solaris - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On 1/25/11 1:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Note: I have this running now on a test box.  If someone responds in the
>> next couple hours, I can run whatever diagnostics you want on it.
>> Otherwise I'll kill it off and start over with debug logging turned on.
>
> trace_sort would be interesting.

OK, either tape sort is broken or trace_sort is.  The larger my
maint_work_mem, the MORE tapes it wants to use:

LOG:  begin index sort: unique = f, workMem = 4194304, randomAccess = f
LOG:  switching to external sort with 14980 tapes: CPU 33.33s/24.23u sec
elapsed 58.86 sec

LOG:  begin index sort: unique = f, workMem = 131072, randomAccess = f
LOG:  switching to external sort with 469 tapes: CPU 1.87s/1.48u sec
elapsed 3.47 sec


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