On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:15:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> > do we maintain anything anywhere for this? mainly, some way of
> > determining # of 'sorts to disk' vs 'sort in memory', to determine whether
> > or not sort_mem is set to a good value?
>
> As of 8.1 you could turn on trace_sort to collect some data about this.
While trace_sort is good, it doesn't really help for monitoring. What I
would find useful would be statistics along the lines of:
How many sorts have occured?
How many spilled to disk?
What's the largest amount of memory used by an in-memory sort?
What's the largest amount of memory used by an on-disk sort?
--
Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com
Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461