Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> BTW, does anyone want to lobby for renaming sort_mem at the same time?
> >> Since it's used for sizing hash tables as well as sort workspace, it's
> >> rather misnamed. I hesitate to rename it because of the potential for
> >> confusion though. People are pretty used to the existing name.
>
> > Hmmm ... maybe query_work_mem and maintenance_work_mem, or something
> > similar?
>
> I'll go with these unless someone has another proposal ...
The only confusion is that you can use multiple query_work_mem per
query, but I can't think of a better name.
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