Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes

Tom Lane wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar(at)frodo(dot)hserus(dot)net> writes:
> > Right now following are measured in pages
> > wal_buffers
> > shared_buffers
> > effective_cachesize
> > while rest of the memory parameters are in kb. I thought being uniform would
> > be good. Besides it will make it independent of page size as well.
>
> It would probably be reasonable to change effective_cache_size, since we
> really do not know what the kernel's unit of buffering is (except on
> Linux, where we *do* know that it ain't 8K ;-)). Personally I'd opt for
> measuring it in MB not KB, though; that would be a much more convenient
> unit on modern machines. We could easily make it a float for anyone who
> thinks they know the cache size to sub-MB accuracy.

I thought the idea was that you could put 'm', 'k', or maybe 'p' after
the value to specify the units.

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