On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>>> Be advised that the work_mem setting (and its deprecated alias sort_mem)>> are on a per-client basis. So if you have a bunch of people running reports>> with that setting, you might discover your server running out of memory;>> that's a really high setting. Generally, if it's only a report or two that>> need a lot more working memory for sorts, you can do this at the beginning>> of them instead:>>>> set work_mem='512MB';>> so how do I change it back to default (without knowing what the previous val> was). I suppose having it in a transaction won't do :P default is 1M, but you can safely run 8 to 16 Meg with your setup. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)To make changes to your subscription:http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
