> Your logic has nothing to do with what is actually happening. Could we > have a little bit more patience to see what happens next?
So, after 15 hours: LOG: finished writing run 20 to tape 19: CPU 588.86s/4484.35u sec elapsed 5160.97 sec STATEMENT: create index "write_log_accounttime_idx" on write_log (account_id, event_time); LOG: finished writing run 21 to tape 20: CPU 620.46s/4712.51u sec elapsed 5435.63 sec STATEMENT: create index "write_log_accounttime_idx" on write_log (account_id, event_time); LOG: finished writing run 22 to tape 21: CPU 654.01s/4953.74u sec elapsed 5726.87 sec STATEMENT: create index "write_log_accounttime_idx" on write_log (account_id, event_time); LOG: finished writing run 23 to tape 22: CPU 688.84s/5204.24u sec elapsed 6029.41 sec STATEMENT: create index "write_log_accounttime_idx" on write_log (account_id, event_time); LOG: finished writing run 24 to tape 23: CPU 721.71s/5442.40u sec elapsed 6316.64 sec STATEMENT: create index "write_log_accounttime_idx" on write_log (account_id, event_time); LOG: finished writing run 25 to tape 24: CPU 757.74s/5708.86u sec elapsed 6636.64 sec STATEMENT: create index "write_log_accounttime_idx" on write_log (account_id, event_time); LOG: finished writing run 26 to tape 25: CPU 790.87s/5946.83u sec elapsed 6924.41 sec STATEMENT: create index "write_log_accounttime_idx" on write_log (account_id, event_time); LOG: finished writing run 27 to tape 26: CPU 823.64s/6186.06u sec elapsed 7212.11 sec STATEMENT: create index "write_log_accounttime_idx" on write_log (account_id, event_time); ... I'll point out that the elapsed times which trace_sort is giving me are clearly not clock times; I started this index run at 7pm PST yesterday and it's been 15 hours, not 2 as the elapsed time would suggest. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs