On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Be advised that the work_mem setting (and its deprecated alias sort_mem) >> are on a per-client basis. So if you have a bunch of people running reports >> with that setting, you might discover your server running out of memory; >> that's a really high setting. Generally, if it's only a report or two that >> need a lot more working memory for sorts, you can do this at the beginning >> of them instead: >> >> set work_mem='512MB'; > > so how do I change it back to default (without knowing what the previous val > was). I suppose having it in a transaction won't do :P
default is 1M, but you can safely run 8 to 16 Meg with your setup. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
