On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:29:45AM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> On 19/07/11 02:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> >Bruce Momjian<bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> >>Tom Lane wrote:
> >>>Huh? Seems like a waste of text to me. What else would happen?
> >>Well, if we exceed work_mem, we spill to temp disk. If we exceed temp
> >>disk, we error out. Those different behaviors don't seem obvious to me.
> >[ shrug... ] Feel free to change it.
> >
> >
>
> No objections from me - can't see any harm in making it very clear
> what happens when the limit is exceeded :-)
Documentation patch attached and applied, and backpatched to 9.2.
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