| From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax |
| Date: | 2008-07-26 21:47:05 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.64.0807261741330.29072@westnet.com |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> 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?
There's already some changes needed in this area needed to execute the
full GUC cleanup/wizard plan that's being worked on. The pg_settings view
really should show the value both as the user input it and as it's stored
internally for cases like these, which lowers the confusion here a bit
even without going so far as converting everything to bytes.
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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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