From: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: wal buffers documentation -errata |
Date: | 2007-01-11 18:51:02 |
Message-ID: | 5DFAF313-15FD-4083-B9E4-37C8AC60109D@fastcrypt.com |
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On 11-Jan-07, at 12:49 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> writes:
>> the point is that the documentation suggests that the default is 8
>> not 8MB, but 8, when in fact the defaults are now given in memory
>> units not pages
>
> Oh, I thought you were complaining that the value was numerically
> wrong.
>
> Perhaps we should convert the documentation to show the defaults in a
> units-ified way, but if so it needs to be done consistently. Most of
> the entries seem not to have been changed; for example shared_buffers
> is still described in blocks.
Yes, everything is described in blocks, but in the configuration file
everything (I've looked at so far) is specified in memory units.
While I appreciate the effort that went into making it somewhat
easier to use memory units I can see this being very confusing for
the average user.
I would suggest that the documentation needs to be consistent with
the example configuration file installed by initdb
Dave
>
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