Re: how to avoid that a postgres session eats up all the memory

But if I have my work mem small, shouldn't it then just end with "out
of memory" and not use up all the memory ...

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 18:48, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> try raising work_mem before the delete; on single connection :
>
> set work_mem=512000; DELETE FROM ......;
>

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