work_mem, temp_buffers, and temp_file_limit - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Lewis
Subject work_mem, temp_buffers, and temp_file_limit
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Responses Re: work_mem, temp_buffers, and temp_file_limit  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I've read the documentation but am unclear on what memory is used when temp_buffers are exceeded by temp tables that are created. Does that also go towards temp_file_limit?

When are temp files (temp_file_limit) cleared out? If there is a big ugly query that uses 8GB of a 10GB limit, and then another query in the same connection wants to use 3GBs of temp files total, will it fail? Or will those earlier temp files have been cleared  or otherwise be ignored?

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