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Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort memory

scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>

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From: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jeff <threshar@torgo.978.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-02-03T01:07:29Z
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> "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.

I didn't think there was.  just hoping... :-)