why has been maintenance_work_mem and work_mem been restricted to 1gb... although i dont need it but kinda server i am working on.... i wont mind allocating...(32gb ram).... #define MaxAllocSize ((Size) 0x3fffffff) /* 1 gigabyte - 1 */ also for those who dont know the max. shared_buffer= 262143 (= 2^31 (INT_MAX) / 8192(size of each buffer)...) comes to be around 2Gb... although i would like to set this high also... but the reasoning for its limit seems logical... developers might want to increase these limits.. with the kind-of 64 bits available now... might speed up the things little bit ;) Regards Himanshu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx