From b67478b99b7452540023ff2c9f548a39c62b65ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 10:39:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc PG 17 relnotes: adjust vacuum memory item Reported-by: David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpZnr+wRMX5Wic9Na60fZSbruEffMoECVubBjv483jV2w@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: master --- doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml index ed1af17bb0a..d7fd87f3d5c 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-17.sgml @@ -530,11 +530,12 @@ Author: Heikki Linnakangas -Allow vacuum to more efficiently store tuple references and remove its memory limit (Masahiko Sawada, John Naylor) +Allow vacuum to more efficiently store tuple references (Masahiko Sawada, John Naylor) -Specifically, maintenance_work_mem and autovacuum_work_mem can now be configured to use more than one gigabyte of memory. WAL traffic caused by vacuum is also more compact. +Additionally, vacuum is no longer silently limited to one gigabyte of memory when maintenance_work_mem and autovacuum_work_mem are higher. WAL traffic caused by +vacuum is also more compact.