Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW it does not 2 gig, but 1 gig (remember that we do sortmembytes *
> 2) .
Good point. Probably that particular calculation should be
"sortmembytes * 2.0" to force it to double before it can overflow.
But I still think we'd better limit SortMem so that the basic
SortMem*1024 calculation can't overflow (or even come close to overflow,
likely).
regards, tom lane
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