Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort memory

Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-02-02T08:28:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Now, what should we call it instead?  I haven't come up with any
> compelling thoughts --- the best I can do is "big_sort_mem" or
> "single_sort_mem".  Surely someone out there has a better idea.

vacuuming and indexing are not too frequent database administration tasks.

administration_mem ? admin_mem ? system_mem ? system_task_mem ?
systask_mem ? executive_mem ?

Anything may be chosen, but the point is to have a good comment within the
template configuration file.

I would nevertheless avoid "big".
What is big changes overtime with computers;-)

-- 
Fabien.