On 22 June 2013 08:46, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>>The next limit faced by sorts is
>> INT_MAX concurrent tuples in memory, which limits helpful work_mem to about
>> 150 GiB when sorting int4.
>
> That's frustratingly small. :(
>
But that has nothing to do with this patch, right? And is easily fixed, yes?
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