Re: query memory consumption - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Best practice to avoid that, is to bump the work_mem temporarily
>> before the query, and than lower it again, lowers the chance of memory
>> exhaustion.
>
> Interesting - I can do that dynamically?

you can do set work_mem=128M; select 1; set work_mem=64M;

etc, in one query.



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GJ