On 19/07/11 02:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
>
>
No objections from me - can't see any harm in making it very clear what
happens when the limit is exceeded :-)