Re: Correct the documentation for work_mem

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih(at)amazon(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Correct the documentation for work_mem
Date: 2023-09-26 13:05:44
Message-ID: CAApHDvrJxauZ6BC3=2JTDE-CUXbMTVLjV2S3gw-=bFRdRAgfsA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, 12 Sept 2023 at 03:03, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:02:55PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> > It's certainly not a show-stopper. I do believe the patch makes some
> > improvements. The reason I'd prefer to see either "and" or "and/or"
> > in place of "or" is because the text is trying to imply that many of
> > these operations can run at the same time. I'm struggling to
> > understand why, given that there could be many sorts and many hashes
> > going on at once that we'd claim it could only be one *or* the other.
> > If we have 12 sorts and 4 hashes then that's not "several sort or hash
> > operations", it's "several sort and hash operations". Of course, it
> > could just be sorts or just hashes, so "and/or" works fine for that.
>
> Yes, I see your point and went with "and", updated patch attached.

Looks good to me.

David

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