Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> >>> 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.
>
> True. Maybe just "work_mem" and "maintenance_work_mem"?
>
> BTW, I am going to look at whether GUC can be persuaded to continue to
> allow "sort_mem" as an alternate name, if we rename it. That would
> alleviate most of the backward-compatibility issues of changing such
> a well-known parameter name.
Good. It is not like we have a huge namespace limitation in there. I
wonder if we could cost it as a list of string pointers, null
terminated.
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