| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Jim Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: GUC with units, details |
| Date: | 2006-07-27 23:28:43 |
| Message-ID: | 14184.1154042923@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> +1 on both of those. I think that pg_settings should actually show
>> "pages" as the native unit for shared_buffers et al. The current
>> "8kb" display isn't a valid unit --- consider what happens if a
>> program does select setting || unit from pg_settings ...
> Physicists know that the proper way to do that calculation is
> setting * unit
> not
> setting || unit
If that actually worked, it'd be one thing, but it doesn't work and
isn't going to do so in 8.2. So I think people will indeed be trying to
use setting || unit for display purposes. In any case "8kB" isn't a
valid unit.
regards, tom lane
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