[HACKERS] Running out of disk space during query

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Simon Riggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: work_mem= 1 GBbenefit at 8 TB work_mem= 256MB benefit at 0.5 TB (based upon runs on average twice size of memory, and each logical tape requiring 256KB memory, i.e. min(work_mem/4, 6) * work_mem * 2, which for

Re: [HACKERS] Running out of disk space during query

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suppose I could put quotas in place or something but I don't really have a problem with the database as a whole using up a bunch of disk space (hence why it's got alot of room to grow into), I just would have liked a this will chew up more disk space

Re: [HACKERS] Running out of disk space during query

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Frost
Tom, * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've got the same problem with this that I do with the recently-proposed patch to fail queries with estimated cost X --- to wit, I think it will result in a net *reduction* in system reliability not an improvement. Any such feature changes the

Re: [HACKERS] Running out of disk space during query

2006-03-08 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:33 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: Greetings, * Simon Riggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: work_mem= 1 GB benefit at 8 TB work_mem= 256MB benefit at 0.5 TB (based upon runs on average twice size of memory, and each logical tape requiring 256KB