On 2020-06-25 09:24:52 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 12:14 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > E.g. if the plan isn't expected to spill,
> > only spill at 10 x work_mem or something like that.
>
> Let's say you have work_mem=32MB and a query that's expected to use
> 16MB of memory. In reality, it uses 64MB of memory. So you are saying
> this query would get to use all 64MB of memory, right?
>
> But then you run ANALYZE. Now the query is (correctly) expected to use
> 64MB of memory. Are you saying this query, executed again with better
> stats, would only get to use 32MB of memory, and therefore run slower?
Yes. I think that's ok, because it was taken into account from a costing
perspective int he second case.