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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Default setting for enable_hashagg_disk
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Msg-id 2164168.1594416641@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Default setting for enable_hashagg_disk  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: Default setting for enable_hashagg_disk  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> It now seems likely that the hash_mem/hash_mem_multiplier proposal has
> the support it needs to get into Postgres 13. Assuming that the
> proposal doesn't lose momentum, then it's about time to return to the
> original question you posed at the start of the thread:

> What should we do with the hashagg_avoid_disk_plan GUC (formerly known
> as the enable_hashagg_disk GUC), if anything?

> I myself think that there is a case to be made for removing it
> entirely.

+0.5 or so for removing it.  It seems too confusing and dubiously
useful.

            regards, tom lane



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