Re: maintenance_work_mem

Philip Semanchuk <philip@americanefficient.com>

From: Philip Semanchuk <philip@americanefficient.com>
To: Atul Kumar <akumar14871@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-11-19T16:43:18Z
Lists: pgsql-general

> On Nov 19, 2020, at 3:05 AM, Atul Kumar <akumar14871@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have below queries:
> 
> 1. How do i check the maintenance_work_mem for current session, before
> setting some other value for this parameter for the same session.
> 
> 2. and How do I set maintenance_work_mem for a session only, and how
> will it be "rollback" once my maintainance work is done, Do I need to
> execute any command for that or just closing the session will rollback
> what I set for the session.

In addition to Andreas’ helpful references to SHOW and SET, there’s also pg_settings --

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/view-pg-settings.html


Cheers
Philip