Re: Limits to size of shared buffers?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jeff Boes <jboes(at)nexcerpt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Limits to size of shared buffers?
Date: 2002-08-19 20:42:58
Message-ID: 26470.1029789778@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jeff Boes <jboes(at)nexcerpt(dot)com> writes:
> Are there any limits to the size of the shared buffers parameter (as in,
> can Postgres go beyond a 2 GB size when I do something like

Probably not; IIRC the size of the shared memory segment is calculated
using signed integers, so it had better stay under 2Gb.

regards, tom lane

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