Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Well, I figure it will be hard to allow larger maximums, but can we make
> > the GUC variable maximums be more realistic? Right now it is
> > MAX_KILOBYTES (INT_MAX).
>
> You seem to be confusing one limitation in one code path with the
> overall meaning of maintenance_work_mem.
Oh, OK, so sorts are limited, but not hash sizes? Are there any other
uses? Should this be documented somehow? What is the actual sort
limit?
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