Mallah,

> Gist indexes take a long time to create as compared
> to normal indexes is there any way to speed them up ?
>
> (for example by modifying sort_mem or something temporarily )

More sort_mem will indeed help.  So will more RAM and a faster CPU.

Our GIST-index-creation process is probably not optimized; this has been 
marked as "needs work" in the code for several versions.   If you know anyone 
who can help Oleg & Teodor out, be put them in touch ...

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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