Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 10/10/13 11:31 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Let me walk through the idea of adding an available_mem setting, that
> Josh suggested, and which I think addresses Robert's concern about
> larger shared_buffers and Windows servers.

I think this is a promising idea.  available_mem could even be set
automatically by packages.  And power users could just set available_mem
= -1 to turn off all the magic.