On 20/07/12 12:02, Tom Lane wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> I did a backport of temp_file_limit feature to 9.1, but when we tested
>> this patch, we found very restristrictive limit to 2GB.
>> 2GB is nonsense, because this is session limit of temp files, and
>> these files should be longer than 2GB.
> This claim is nonsense. The variable's value is measured in KB, so the
> effective limit is actually 2TB not 2GB.
>
>
Did you guys perchance pick up one of the earlier patches that had
MAX_KILOBYTES instead of INT_MAX as the limit? i.e:
{"temp_file_limit", PGC_SUSET, RESOURCES_DISK, gettext_noop("Limits the total size of all temp files
used
by each session."), gettext_noop("-1 means no limit."), GUC_UNIT_KB },
&temp_file_limit, -1, -1, **MAX_KILOBYTES**, <==== NULL, NULL, NULL },