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>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, 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: 2023-03-09 19:52:31
Message-ID: 20230309195231.GB3703826@nathanxps13
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 06:51:21PM +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I'd rather make all these other places use "instance" instead. We used
> to consider these terms interchangeable, but since we introduced the
> glossary to unify the terminology, they are no longer supposed to be.
> A server (== a machine) can contain many instances, and each individual
> instance in the server could be using huge pages or not.

Ah, good to know. I've always considered "server" in this context to mean
the server process(es) for a single instance, but I can see the value in
having different terminology to clearly distinguish the process(es) from
the machine.

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Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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