Re: Automatically setting work_mem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Automatically setting work_mem
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Msg-id 10420.1142631917@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Automatically setting work_mem  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>)
Responses Re: Automatically setting work_mem
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net> writes:
> So perhaps we could keep the shaded_work_mem in actual shared memory,
> and alloc it to processes from there ?

No, that's utterly not reasonable, both from an allocation point of view
(you'd have to make shared memory enormous, and not all platforms will
like that) and from a locking point of view.
        regards, tom lane


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