On 2020-06-30 06:24, David Rowley wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 16:20, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> There is a fairly widespread issue that memory-size-related GUCs and
>> suchlike variables are limited to represent sizes that fit in a "long".
>> Although Win64 is the *only* platform where that's an issue, maybe
>> it's worth doing something about. But we shouldn't just fix the sort
>> code, if we do do something.
>>
>> (IOW, I don't agree with doing a fix that doesn't also fix work_mem.)
>
> I raised it mostly because this new-to-PG13-code is making the problem worse.
Yeah, we recently got rid of a bunch of inappropriate use of long, so it
seems reasonable to make this new code follow that.
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