Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Well, maybe. What's in the back of my mind is that we may come > across other cases besides CREATE INDEX and VACUUM that should use a > "one-off" setting. I think it'd make more sense to have one > parameter than keep on inventing new ones.
> I don't know if this would apply here - but foriegn key creation also > benefits hugely from jacking up sort_mem and you also don't do too many > of those in parellel. > I'm guessing it would be quite in-elegant and kludgy to make that code > use the bigger pool.. it would benefit restore times though. Actually, it wouldn't be all that hard. We could make RI_Initial_Check() do the equivalent of "SET LOCAL work_mem" before issuing the query, and then again afterwards to restore the prior value. This would have no permanent effect on work_mem, because the old value would be restored by transaction abort if the check query fails. This seems like a good idea to me, so I'll do it unless I hear objections. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])