Re: Improve logging when using Huge Pages

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com, noriyoshi(dot)shinoda(at)hpe(dot)com, jchampion(at)timescale(dot)com, sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com, masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: Improve logging when using Huge Pages
Date: 2023-02-09 19:29:09
Message-ID: 20230209192909.GA606606@nathanxps13
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 10:40:13AM +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2023-Feb-08, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>> I don't think it makes sense to run postgres -C huge_pages_active,
>> however, so I see no issue that that would always returns "false".
>
> Hmm, I would initialize it to return "unknown" rather than "off" — and
> make sure it turns "off" at the appropriate time. Otherwise you're just
> moving the confusion elsewhere.

I think this approach would address my concerns about using a GUC.

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Nathan Bossart
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