Re: Workaround for working_mem max value in windows?

> On 16 Apr 2014, at 17:35, "Nick Eubank" <nickeubank(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:29 AM, amulsul <sul_amul(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in> wrote:
>> >Anyone found a work around?
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>> Wouldn't it helpful, setting it in your session?
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>> set work_mem='2000MB';
>> set maintenance_work_mem='2000MB';
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>> do rest of sql after .....
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>> Regards,
>> Amul Sul
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> Thanks all!
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> Sorry Martin, should have been clearer on my usage plans: I'm only interested in optimizing for single-connection, sequential high-demand queries, so I think I'm safe bumping up memory usage, even if it's usually a disastrous idea for most users. I'll definitely check with the Enterprise folks!
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> Amul: thanks for the followup! Unfortunately, setting locally faces the same limitation as setting things in the config file -- I get an "ERROR: 3072000 is outside the valid range for parameter "work_mem" (64 .. 2097151)
> SQL state: 22023" problem if I set above ~1.9gb. :(
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Nick, the issue would still remain if you set work_mem to 2Gb and joined 8 tables together, it would consume too much memory.

So if you DO decide to proceed with this, I would recommend to err on the side of caution and be a little more concerned with tuning your SQL statements

Good luck.

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