On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:14:57PM +0100, Sam Mason wrote:
> Postgres, the server software, will spill large results (and any
> intermediate working sets) to disk automatically as needed.  I believe
> any memory allocated for this task will be up to work_mem in size.

That wasn't very clear was it; when I said "this task" I meant the task
of accumulating results before things spill.

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  Sam  http://samason.me.uk/

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