I tend to think the opposite since I already produced 30 GB tables on a machine 
with 8 GB of RAM..... I guess once finished, every row is flushed to the disk 
and its RAM share freed. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:postgis-users-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bborie Park
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 10:03 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Raster ST_Union memory limit
> 
> I think your query will explode...
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Pierre Racine
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>       Thanks,
> 
>       The RAM limit is per row or per query? In other word, if a query
> produce fields smaller than my available RAM but the whole resulting table
> is bigger than my available RAM, are each resulting row flushed to the disk
> so that my whole query does not explode?
> 
>       Pierre
> 
> 
>       > -----Original Message-----
>       > From: [email protected] [mailto:postgis-
> users-
>       > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bborie Park
>       > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 9:52 AM
>       > To: PostGIS Users Discussion
>       > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Raster ST_Union memory limit
>       >
>       > RAM available.
>       >
>       > -bborie
>       >
>       >
>       > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Pierre Racine
>       > <[email protected]> wrote:
>       >
>       >
>       >       Hi,
>       >
>       >       What maximum size the result of a ST_Union(rast) can be if it
> is
>       > embedded in a ST_Tile() call?
>       >
>       >       SELECT ST_Tile(ST_Union(rast), 100, 100) rast FROM ...
>       >
>       >       The RAM available to PostgreSQL or the maximum size of a
>       > PostgreSQL field (1GB)?
>       >
>       >       Thanks,
>       >
>       >       Pierre
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