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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2012-08-03 15:15:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2012-08-03 15:15:27 -0400 |
| commit | e7d9f26a6008c61ea388f1324176cf45b94e2337 (patch) | |
| tree | e4ab0f4f4129abc778a7f07dfab10cad611fb8aa | |
| parent | 91668fcc318cac9d980f076dee9258cd76904e9f (diff) | |
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Document that trying to exceed temp_file_limit causes a query cancel.
Backpatch to 9.2.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index 074afee494e..631f302d7f2 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -1138,7 +1138,8 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF; <para> Specifies the maximum amount of disk space that a session can use for temporary files, such as sort and hash temporary files, or the - storage file for a held cursor. + storage file for a held cursor. A transaction attempting to exceed + this limit will be cancelled. The value is specified in kilobytes, and <literal>-1</> (the default) means no limit. Only superusers can change this setting. |