From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes |
Date: | 2004-06-01 03:42:29 |
Message-ID: | 87aczo7xlm.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > So I disagree with the premise. Measuring these things in KB is not an
> > improvement.
>
> I agree, although I think changing effective_cache_size to be measured in KB/MB
> is worth doing.
I have to say as a user the parameters that are measured in postgres blocks
are really annoying and confusing. Really really annoying and confusing.
If someone's playing with this I would suggest they should work something like
dd parameters and take a unit. So you could specify effective_cache=500k or
effective_cache=1M or effective_cache=1G or whatever unit you wanted.
And this should be true for _all_ parameters that measure space. Consistency
makes it much much easier for people to learn a new system.
--
greg
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