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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 2GB or not 2GB
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:10:40 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <200805311153.13186.josh@agliodbs.com>
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On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:53 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Simon,
> 
> > There is an optimum for each specific sort.
> 
> Well, if the optimum is something other than "as much as we can get", then we 
> still have a pretty serious issue with work_mem, no?

Depends upon your view of serious I suppose. I would say it is an
acceptable situation, but needs further optimization. I threw some ideas
around on Hackers around Dec/New Year, but I don't have time to work on
this further myself in this dev cycle. Further contributions welcome.

-- 
 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com
 PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support




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