Hi, Sorry for the delay in response and thanks for the feedback!
> I've reviewed and built the documentation for the updated patch. As it stands > right now I think the documentation for this section is quite clear. Sorry, I am not understanding. What is clear? The current documentation -or- the proposed documentation in the patch? >> I'm wondering about adding "and more than one of these operations may >> be in progress simultaneously". Are you talking about concurrent >> sessions running other queries which are using work_mem too? > This appears to be referring to the "sort and hash" operations mentioned > prior. Correct, this is not referring to multiple sessions, but a given execution could have multiple operations that are each using up to work_mem simultaneously. > I also agree that changing "sort or hash" to "sort and hash" is a better > description. That is addressed in the last revision of the patch. - Note that for a complex query, several sort or hash operations might be - running in parallel; each operation will generally be allowed + Note that a complex query may include several sort and hash operations, Regards, Sami