From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Hussey <peter@labkey.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Questions on query planner, join types, and work_mem
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:01:51 -0400
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar jul 27 20:05:02 -0400 2010:
> Peter Hussey <peter@labkey.com> writes:
> > 2) How is work_mem used by a query execution?
>
> Well, the issue you're hitting is that the executor is dividing the
> query into batches to keep the size of the in-memory hash table below
> work_mem. The planner should expect that and estimate the cost of
> the hash technique appropriately, but seemingly it's failing to do so.
> Since you didn't provide EXPLAIN ANALYZE output, though, it's hard
> to be sure.
Hmm, I wasn't aware that hash joins worked this way wrt work_mem. Is
this visible in the explain output? If it's something subtle (like an
increased total cost), may I suggest that it'd be a good idea to make it
explicit somehow in the machine-readable outputs?
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