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Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort memory

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
Cc: Jeff <threshar@torgo.978.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-02-03T00:02:04Z
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"scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> any chance of having some kind of max_total_sort_mem setting to keep 
> machines out of swap storms, or would that be a nightmare to implement?

I don't see any reasonable way to do that.

			regards, tom lane