Chris Withers <ch...@withers.org> writes:
> It has 4.1 million rows in it and while importing the data only
> takes a couple of minutes, when I did a test load into the new
> cluster, building the mkt_profile_period_col1_col4_col2_chan_excl
> index for the exclude constraint took 15 hours.
Don't recall for sure, but I think GIST index build is sensitive
to the maintenance_work_mem setting; did you have that cranked up?
> - failing that, what can I do to import and then create the index
> in the background?
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, perhaps.
regards, tom lane
