| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: changing sort_mem on the fly? |
| Date: | 2005-01-28 00:23:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20050128002321.GP67721@decibel.org |
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:57:22PM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> Is there any way to increase sort_mem without having to perform a full
> restart of the DB? Will just doing a 'kill -HUP $PID" work as long as
> i've made the change in postgresql.conf first?
>
> As a side question, are the options that will take effect with a kill
> -HUP documented somewhere?
If you just want to change it for one connection, you can do 'set
sort_mem=newvalue;'. You might need to be an admin to do it, though.
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