Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gFFLr-0000UH-US for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:21:20 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gFFLp-0004HH-AY for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:21:17 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gFFLo-0004H9-Uj for pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:21:17 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gFFLm-0000ru-Cs for pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:21:15 +0000 Received: from pro.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w9O9LBEf010937; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 05:21:12 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Bruno Wolff III cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: Should pg 11 use a lot more memory building an spgist index? In-reply-to: <20181024083748.GA3296@wolff.to> References: <20181024012314.GA27428@wolff.to> <19003.1540370028@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20181024083748.GA3296@wolff.to> Comments: In-reply-to Bruno Wolff III message dated "Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:37:48 -0500" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <19087.1540372871.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:21:11 +0100 Message-ID: <19088.1540372871@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk Bruno Wolff III writes: > If I have a substantial database dump file to provide for reproducing this > do you prefer it on a web server somewhere? I expect that mailing very > large attachments to the lists is a bad idea. No, don't do that. If you can make sample data available for download, or point to some accessible dataset somewhere, that'd work. regards, tom lane