On 9/12/2011 12:33 PM, Robert Schnabel wrote:
The recent "data warehouse" thread made me think about how I use
work_mem for some of my big queries. So I tried SET work_mem = '4GB' for
a session and got
ERROR: 4194304 is outside the valid range for parameter "work_mem" (64
.. 2097151)
A bit of searching turned up the "Allow sorts to use more available
memory" section of the to-do list. Am I correct in reading that the
max_val is 2GB and regardless of how much RAM I have in the box I'm
stuck with only using 2GB? Am I missing something?
I'm using: PostgreSQL 9.0.4, compiled by Visual C++ build 1500, 64-bit
Windows 2008 Server Enterprise
Thanks,
Bob
work_mem is not the total a query can use. I believe each step can use
that much, and each backend can use it for multiple bits. So if you had
two backends, each doing 2 sorts, you'd use 2*2 = 4 * 2GB = 8GB.
-Andy
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