Re: Indexing large table of coordinates with GiST - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 1/15/2015 6:44 AM, Daniel Begin wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to create an index on coordinates (geography type) over a
> large table (4.5 billion records) using GiST...
>
> CREATE INDEX nodes_geom_idx ON nodes USING gist (geom);
>
> The command ran for 5 days until my computer stops because a power outage!
> Before restarting the index creation, I am asking the community if there are
> ways to shorten the time it took the first time :-)
>
> Any idea?
>
> Daniel
>
>
>

Set maintenance_work_mem as large as you can.

-Andy