On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)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 ...
>

so, it uses 'work_mem' as a buffer ?


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 		Oleg
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