Tom Lane wrote: > Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> BTW, does anyone want to lobby for renaming sort_mem at the same time? > >> Since it's used for sizing hash tables as well as sort workspace, it's > >> rather misnamed. I hesitate to rename it because of the potential for > >> confusion though. People are pretty used to the existing name. > > > Hmmm ... maybe query_work_mem and maintenance_work_mem, or something > > similar? > > I'll go with these unless someone has another proposal ...
The only confusion is that you can use multiple query_work_mem per query, but I can't think of a better name. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
