From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jon Nelson <jnelson+pgsql@jamponi.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: problems with set_config, work_mem, maintenance_work_mem, and sorting
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:28:03 -0500
Message-ID: <9466.1330457283@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Jon Nelson <jnelson+pgsql@jamponi.net> writes:
> The config shows 128MB for work_mem and 2GB for maintenance_work_mem.
> Why does PostgreSQL /sometimes/ use the globally-configured values and
> sometimes use the values that come from the connection?
You sure those log entries are all from the same process?
regards, tom lane
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