On 9/07/2011 3:25 PM, Gael Le Mignot wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are running a PostgreSQL 8.4 database, with two tables containing a
> lot (> 1 million) moderatly small rows. It contains some btree indexes,
> and one of the two tables contains a gin full-text index.
>
> We noticed that the autovacuum process tend to use a lot of memory,
> bumping the postgres process near 1Gb while it's running.
What is maintenance_work_mem set to in postgresql.conf?
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