On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Sam Mason <s...@samason.me.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:51:46PM +0200, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > >> i have a function that produces a result in xml. > >> that is one row, one value even, but it grows pretty large. > >> how is that handled? > > > > Rows are sent back in the entireity, so the PG instance would need > > enough memory to work with that row. When you're running a 32bit > > version of PG, values whose size is beyond ~100MB are a bit touch and go > > whether it will work. > Is'nt "work_mem" used for this on the server side (when sorts and hash-tables are required) and "temp_buffers" (when temporary tables are created) ?
