On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Best practice to avoid that, is to bump the work_mem temporarily >> before the query, and than lower it again, lowers the chance of memory >> exhaustion. > > Interesting - I can do that dynamically?
you can do set work_mem=128M; select 1; set work_mem=64M; etc, in one query. -- GJ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
