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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Huge memory consumption during vacuum (v.8.0)
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In response to Re: Huge memory consumption during vacuum (v.8.0)  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> I see that pgsql_tmp/ contains files, looks like clustered table.
> What postmaster is doing if disk usage doesn't changed ?

Most likely doing a disk-based merge sort ...
        regards, tom lane

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