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Doc: mention that VACUUM can't utilize over 1GB of RAM
Document that setting maintenance_work_mem to values over 1GB has no effect on VACUUM. Reported-by: Martín Marqués Author: Laurenz Albe Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABeG9LsZ2ozUMcqtqWu_-GiFKB17ih3p8wBHXcpfnHqhCnsc7A%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.6, oldest supported release
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too high. It may be useful to control for this by separately
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setting <xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-work-mem"/>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Additionally, <command>VACUUM</command> is only able to utilize up to
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a maximum of <literal>1GB</literal> of memory, so
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<varname>maintenance_work_mem</varname> values higher than this have
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no effect on <command>VACUUM</command>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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