On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:50 AM Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote:
> > Primarily in favor of escape hatch: > > Jeff, > DavidR, > Pavel, > Andres, > Robert ??, > Amit ?? > > To be clear, by "escape hatch" you mean "add a GUC that instructs the PostgreSQL executor to ignore hash_mem when deciding whether to spill the contents of the hash table to disk - IOW to never spill the contents of a hash table to disk"? If so that seems separate from whether to add a hash_mem GUC to provide finer grained control - people may well want both. Primarily in favor of hash_mem/hash_mem_multiplier: > > PeterG, > Tom, > Alvaro, > Tomas, > Justin, > DavidG, > Jonathan Katz > > I would prefer DavidJ as an abbreviation - my middle initial can be dropped when referring to me. David J.