On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> ... which is the ORM library (SQLAlchemy) doing a reflection of the >>> table(s) involved. >> >> Oh, there's an ORM involved? I'll bet a nickel it's doing something >> surprising, like not issuing your SET until much later than you thought. > > I'd rather go for an auto-rollback at some point within the > transaction that issued the set work_mem. SQLA tends to do that if, > for instance, an exception is risen within a transaction block (ie, > flushing). > > You can issue the set work_mem in its own transaction, and commit it, > and in that way avoid that rollback. I cranked the logging /all/ the way up and isolated the server. I suspect that your theory is correct. I'll spend a bit more time investigating. -- Jon -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance