Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Stephen Frost  wrote:
>> Actually, I object to increasing work_mem by default. In my experience
>> most of the untuned servers are backing some kind of web application and
>> often run with far too many connections. Increasing work_mem for those
>> is dangerous.
>
> And I still disagree with this- even in those cases.  Those same untuned
> servers are running dirt-simple queries 90% of the time and they won't
> use any more memory from this, while the 10% of the queries which are
> more complicated will greatly improve.

+1


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Peter Geoghegan