On 9/12/2011 3:58 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert Schnabel
<schnabelr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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)
Ubuntu 10.10, pgsql 8.4.8:
smarlowe=# set work_mem='1000GB';
SET
Ok, so is this a limitation related to the Windows implementation?
And getting back to the to-do list entry and reading the related posts,
it appears that even if you could set work_mem that high it would only
use 2GB anyway. I guess that was the second part of my question. Is
that true?
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