Re: postgresql 9.5 has ocuuered OOM - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 9:59:24 AM PST David G. Johnston wrote:

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Uwe <uwe@oss4u.com> wrote:

IIRC work_mem is a PER CONNECTION setting,

​The docs for this setting clearly state that a single connection/session can itself use multiple times this values for a single query.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-resource.html#RUNTI ME-CONFIG-RESOURCE-MEMORY

So even worse for the OP. No wonder he runs out of memory. Thanks for the correction.

Uwe