On 2020-Jun-25, Andres Freund wrote: > >My point here is that maybe we don't need to offer a GUC to explicitly > >turn spilling off; it seems sufficient to let users change work_mem so > >that spilling will naturally not occur. Why do we need more? > > That's not really a useful escape hatch, because I'll often lead to > other nodes using more memory.
Ah -- other nodes in the same query -- you're right, that's not good. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
