On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:I see that pgsql_tmp/ contains files, looks like clustered table. What postmaster is doing if disk usage doesn't changed ?
Most likely doing a disk-based merge sort ...
so, it uses 'work_mem' as a buffer ?
regards, tom lane
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