Re: Problem creating index

Torello Querci escribió:
> 2013/8/26 Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
>
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Torello Querci <tquerci@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ERROR:  unexpected end of tape
> >
> > Really strange, if I get it right something went wrong while sorting
> > tuples.
> > Is it possible to test with an incremented work_mem value?
> >
> > Actually I use the default work_set value (1MB).
> Of course it is possible increase work_set value to any values.
> Now I'll try with 10MB (shared_buffers is set to 412MB).
> If you think that 10MB is a very low value for a table with million of
> records I can try to increase work_set value to higher value.

Note that index creation uses maintenance_work_mem to limit memory used,
not work_mem.

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