On 2020-Jun-25, Andres Freund wrote:
> >My point here is that maybe we don't need to offer a GUC to explicitly
> >turn spilling off; it seems sufficient to let users change work_mem so
> >that spilling will naturally not occur. Why do we need more?
>
> That's not really a useful escape hatch, because I'll often lead to
> other nodes using more memory.
Ah -- other nodes in the same query -- you're right, that's not good.
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