Re: Default setting for enable_hashagg_disk - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:53:57AM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> I'm not saying it's not beneficial to use different limits for different
> nodes. Some nodes are less sensitive to the size (e.g. sorting often
> gets faster with smaller work_mem). But I think we should instead have a
> per-session limit, and the planner should "distribute" the memory to
> different nodes. It's a hard problem, of course.

Yeah, I am actually confused why we haven't developed a global memory
allocation strategy and continue to use per-session work_mem.

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