On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 1:58 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > > v12 what? > > That ... > > > It would help if you can provide a self-contained demonstration > > that others can then verify and debug (or explain). > > ... and that. As this message stands, it's undocumented whining. > Please see > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions > > for the sort of information we need to debug performance issues. > There's also > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems > > although that's not oriented specifically to performance issues. > > (I recall that we have fixed some problems in the past that could > lead to unreasonable numbers of temp files in hash joins. Whether > there's more to do, or Peter is running a version that lacks those > fixes, is impossible to tell with the given info.) >
Thanks. I'll add that given the nature of the problem that changing temp_file_limit away from its default of unlimited may be useful. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-resource.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-RESOURCE-DISK David J.