On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:31 AM Jason Ralph <jra...@affinitysolutions.com> wrote: > The end of month process that we run at my company was a pg_dump and > pg_restore of 3 tables, these tables are around ~(400GB) each. The entire > process on pg93 took 29 hours. > > The index creation portion of the restore on the target pg9.3 database took: > 5) time: -15 hours -4 minute ((-54264 % 60)) seconds > > The index creation of the restore on the target db after pg11 upgrade on > source and target took: > 5) time: -5 hours -7 minute ((-18434 % 60)) seconds > > We saved 10 hours!!
The sort code received many improvements over the years, really starting in 9.5, and continuing in 9.6, 10 and 11. FWIW, I think that that was probably the biggest factor here. Though parallel CREATE INDEX will have helped as well. -- Peter Geoghegan
