Re: Correct the documentation for work_mem

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:02:55PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sept 2023 at 14:25, Imseih (AWS), Sami <simseih@amazon.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This looks mostly fine to me modulo "sort or hash". I do see many
> > > instances of "and/or" in the docs. Maybe that would work better.
> >
> > "sort or hash operations at the same time" is clear explanation IMO.
> 
> Just for anyone else following along that haven't seen the patch. The
> full text in question is:
> 
> +        Note that a complex query might perform several sort or hash
> +        operations at the same time, with each operation generally being
> 
> 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.

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