"[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes:
> One question that popped up in my head. hash_mem_multiplier is an upper-bound
> right: it doesn't reserve memory ahead of time correct? So there is no reason
> for me to spend undue amounts of time fine-tuning this parameter? If I have
> work_mem to 521MB, then I can set hash_mem_multiplier to 8 and should be OK.
> This doesn't mean that every query will consume 4GB of memory.
Yeah, I wouldn't sweat over the specific value. The pre-v13 behavior
was effectively equivalent to hash_mem_multiplier = infinity, so if
you weren't having any OOM problems before, just crank it up.
regards, tom lane