On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 9:21 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Yeah, I should have said "2GB plus palloc slop". It doesn't surprise > me a bit that we seem to be eating another 20% on top of the nominal > limit.
MAX_KILOBYTES is the max_val for the work_mem GUC itself, and has been for many years. The function get_hash_mem() returns a work_mem-style int that callers refer to as hash_mem -- the convention is that callers pretend that there is a work_mem style GUC (called hash_mem) that they must access by calling get_hash_mem(). I don't see how it's possible for get_hash_mem() to be unable to return a hash_mem value that could be represented by work_mem directly. MAX_KILOBYTES is an annoyingly low limit on Windows, where sizeof(long) is 4. But that's nothing new. -- Peter Geoghegan
