Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E40BB5DBD6 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:50:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45782-04 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:50:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:20:59.341987 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mailgate.iii.com (mailgate.iii.com [205.227.88.3]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFCCB5DBD1 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:50:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mailhub.iii.com (mailhub [10.1.2.3]) by mailgate.iii.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p5DGKFRE030245 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.7.210] ([10.1.7.210]) by mailhub.iii.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p5DGX0lI020774 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DF63AD2.2050501@iii.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:29:06 -0700 From: Dinesh Bhandary Reply-To: dbhandary@iii.com Organization: Innovative Interfaces User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: changing work_mem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201106/59 X-Sequence-Number: 37685 Hi All - Is there a way to change work_mem for a session in postgres without restarting a database? Please let me know. Thanks. Dinesh