On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 08:47:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
I don't know, but one of the main arguments against simply suggesting
people to bump up work_mem (if they're hit by the hashagg spill in v13)
was that it'd increase overall memory usage for them. It seems strange
to then propose a new GUC set to a default that would result in higher
memory usage *for everyone*.
It seems like a lot of the disagreement here is focused on Peter's
proposal to make hash_mem_multiplier default to 2.0. But it doesn't
seem to me that that's a critical element of the proposal. Why not just
make it default to 1.0, thus keeping the default behavior identical
to what it is now?
If we find that's a poor default, we can always change it later;
but it seems to me that the evidence for a higher default is
a bit thin at this point.
You're right, I was specifically pushing against that aspect of the
proposal. Sorry for not making that clearer, I assumed it's clear from
the context of this (sub)thread.
I agree making it 1.0 (or equal to work_mem, if it's not a multiplier)
by default, but allowing it to be increased if needed would address most
of the spilling issues.
regards
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