Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 14:15 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > ISTM that before long someone will want to use more than 2 GB for
> > work_mem. Currently, you can't set more because it overflows the
> > variable.
>
> Yes you can, because the value is measured in KB.
Right, so there is probably a bug in my patch ... Nevermind then. All the
other options are OK with 32 bit ints.
> I'd be fairly worried about whether that wouldn't mean we fail
> completely on INT64_IS_BROKEN platforms ...
I wonder whether platforms with INT64_IS_BROKEN can address more than 2GB of
memory anyway.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
