Re: Huge memory consumption during vacuum (v.8.0) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oleg Bartunov
Subject Re: Huge memory consumption during vacuum (v.8.0)
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.62.0502020029410.20328@ra.sai.msu.su
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In response to Re: Huge memory consumption during vacuum (v.8.0)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
>> I see that pgsql_tmp/ contains files, looks like clustered table.
>> What postmaster is doing if disk usage doesn't changed ?
>
> Most likely doing a disk-based merge sort ...
>

just interesting - multiway, in-place or just place merge sort ?

>             regards, tom lane
>
    Regards,        Oleg
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