On 10/09/2013 01:37 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > If Heroku could increase maintenace_work_mem without having it affect > the amount of memory used by autovacuum workers, I'm fairly confident > that our setting would be higher. Sure, you can just increase it as > you need to, but you have to know about it in the first place, which > is asking too much of many people tasked with semi-routine maintenance > tasks like creating indexes.
Personally, I never got why we used maint_work_mem instead of work_mem for bulk-loading indexes. What was the reason there? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
