From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbal...@gmail.com> Basically you are creating a new table and loading data to it and that means you will be less likely to access those data soon so for such thing spoiling buffer cache may not be a good idea. --------------------------------------------------
Some people, including me, would say that the table will be accessed soon and that's why the data is loaded quickly during minimal maintenance hours. -------------------------------------------------- I was just suggesting only for experiments for identifying the root cause. -------------------------------------------------- I thought this is a good chance to possibly change things better (^^). I guess the user would simply think like this: "I just want to finish CTAS as quickly as possible, so I configured to take advantage of parallelism. I want CTAS to make most use of our resources. Why doesn't Postgres try to limit resource usage (by using the ring buffer) against my will?" Regards Takayuki Tsunakawa