On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 9:59:24 AM PST David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Uwe <uwe(at)oss4u(dot)com> wrote:
> > IIRC work_mem is a PER CONNECTION setting,
>
> The docs for this setting clearly state that a single connection/session
> can itself use multiple times this values for a single query.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-resource.html#RUNTI
> ME-CONFIG-RESOURCE-MEMORY
>
So even worse for the OP. No wonder he runs out of memory.
Thanks for the correction.
Uwe