On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:57:22PM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > Is there any way to increase sort_mem without having to perform a full > restart of the DB? Will just doing a 'kill -HUP $PID" work as long as > i've made the change in postgresql.conf first? > > As a side question, are the options that will take effect with a kill > -HUP documented somewhere? If you just want to change it for one connection, you can do 'set sort_mem=newvalue;'. You might need to be an admin to do it, though. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
