Re: using a lot of maintenance_work_mem

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 03:05 +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > BTW, it sounded like your argument had to do with whether it would use
> > HashAgg or not -- that is *not* dependent on the per-palloc limit, and
> > never has been.
> >
> 
> His point was he wanted to be allowed to set work_mem > 1GB. This is
> going to become a bigger and bigger problem with 72-128GB and larger
> machines already becoming quite standard.
> 

Yes it is, it even came up at East. 1GB just doesn't cut it anymore... 

JD

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