Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 17:54 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> >> shared_buffers is in disk block size, typically 8K
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> > The table the OP is looking at (table 17.2 in the 8.3 docs) predates
> > the ability to specify shared_buffers in KB or MB instead of
> > number-of-buffers. I agree it's not entirely obvious that what it
> > means is "multiply your setting in KB/MB by 8400/8192". Anybody have
> > an idea how to clarify things?
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> Bite the bullet and start showing the buffer settings as a pure number of bytes
> everywhere, and get rid of the confusing '8kB' unit in pg_settings?

+1

We have helper functions like pg_size_pretty() to resolve the other
issues.

Joshua D. Drake

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