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Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file sp - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file sp
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Msg-id 2728.1310999767@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file sp  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file sp
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Huh?  Seems like a waste of text to me.  What else would happen?

> Well, if we exceed work_mem, we spill to temp disk.  If we exceed temp
> disk, we error out.  Those different behaviors don't seem obvious to me.

[ shrug... ]  Feel free to change it.
        regards, tom lane

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