Re: shared_buffers setting

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: kevin kempter <kevin(at)kevinkempterllc(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: shared_buffers setting
Date: 2008-09-16 01:10:42
Message-ID: 10139.1221527442@sss.pgh.pa.us
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kevin kempter <kevin(at)kevinkempterllc(dot)com> writes:
> I'm unclear per the docs what the effect is of specifying a shared
> buffers value without a kB or an MB at the end.
> For example if I specify shared buffers as:
> shared_buffers = 5000
> would this equate to 5000 8K pages, or 5000K, 5000bytes?

Pages. When in doubt, look at the units column of pg_settings.

regards, tom lane

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