Re: sort_mem param of postgresql.conf

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Anyone knows why the "sort_mem" parametr isn't by default in postgresql.conf
> file ? I had no idea it existed before, and we had some hudge queries
> running 1-2 minutes here, doing all sorts on disc, adding sort_mem = 512MB
> to config shortened that to 20s. These are run only ocasionaly, so the
> memory won't be always used - but helps in these few cases .

sort_mem is right there.  If you're running an older version of pgql.
I think it turned into work_mem around 8.0 or 8.1

Are you trying to use a postgresql.conf from an older version of pgsql
with a newer version of pgsql?