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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Khoa Nguyen <[email protected]>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]>
Cc: Lukas Fittl <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul A Jungwirth <[email protected]>
Cc: Khoa Nguyen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_buffercache: Add per-relation summary stats
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 16:05:11 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM Khoa Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think erroring out when the
> estimated hash size exceeds work_mem is sufficient.  We can rely on
> the DBA’s call to increase this session’s work_mem for this particular
> query to go through without affecting all backends.

I am -1 on an error in that case. I would just document how much
memory the function can potentially use.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com






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