On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:52:41PM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:23:21 -0600, Jim C. Nasby <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > I need to do it for all future connections, not just one. 'm guessing pg_ctl reload would take effect on all new connections. Try it, and see what psql -c 'show sort_mem' says. -- 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 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
