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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com> wrote:
> work_mem = 160MB # pg_generate_conf wizard 2010-02-03

Overall these settings look sane, but this one looks like an
exception.  That is an enormous value for that parameter...

...Robert