Re: Parallel index build during COPY

On Jun 15, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Toru SHIMOGAKI wrote:

> NTT has some ideas about index creation during a large amount of
> data loading. Our approach is the following: index tuples are
> created at the same time as heap tuples and added into heapsort. In
> addition, we use old index tuples as sorted list if the target
> table has already data. It is not necessary for data loader to sort
> all the index tuples including old ones. After only new index
> tuples are sorted, both sorted lists are merged and the whole index
> is built. It can save both CPU resources and disk accesses
> dramatically, especially if the target table has already so many
> tuples.
> This approach needs to acquire a table lock, which is unlike COPY's
> lock mode, so we have developed it as another bulk load tool. We
> will talk about it in PostgreSQL Anniversary Conference at Toronto.
> Thank you for Josh’s coordination.

So does that mean you're able to do all that without hacking the back-
end? Impressive. :)

I look forward to hearing about it.
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