Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file sp

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file sp
Date: 2011-07-18 14:36:07
Message-ID: 2728.1310999767@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Huh? Seems like a waste of text to me. What else would happen?

> Well, if we exceed work_mem, we spill to temp disk. If we exceed temp
> disk, we error out. Those different behaviors don't seem obvious to me.

[ shrug... ] Feel free to change it.

regards, tom lane

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