Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort memory - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort memory
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Msg-id 20040131180818.H63159@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Idea about better configuration options for sort memory  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> So, what I'd like to do is make btree index creation pay attention to
> vacuum_mem instead of sort_mem, and rename the vacuum_mem parameter to
> some more-generic name indicating that it's used for more than just
> VACUUM.  Any objections so far?

Why not create a seperate index_mem variable instead?  index creation
tends to be, I think, less frequent then vacuum, so having a higher value
for index_mem then vacuum_mem may make sense ...


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