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On 3/22/10 4:36 PM, Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
> Here we go again!
>
> Can anyone see any obvious faults?
>
> Carlo
>
> maintenance_work_mem = 256MB
I'm not sure how large your individual tables are, but you might want to 
bump this value up to get faster vacuums.
> max_fsm_relations = 1000
I think this will definitely need to be increased
> work_mem = 64MB
Most data warehousing loads I can think of will need more work_mem, but 
this depends on how large of data sets you are planning to sort.