Re: Postgres 11 release notes

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 4:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 2018-May-15, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 09:01:35AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > There's a small typo.
> > >
> > > > Add support for with huge(large) pages on Windows (Takayuki
> Tsunakawa, Thomas Munro)
> > >
> > > I think a space between "huge" and "(large)" is needed.
> >
> > Done, URL updated.
>
> I'm not sure why we say "huge (large) pages". The natural term for
> Windows is "large-pages",
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
> aa366720(v=vs.85).aspx
> so I think we should use that terminology. Maybe something like
>
> Add support for <firstterm>large pages</firstterm> on Windows (Takayuki
> Tsunakawa, Thomas Munro)
> This is controlled by the <link>huge_pages</link> configuration parameter.
>
>
I assume the point here is that we the term huge pages is what's used in
PostgreSQL. For example, they are still configured using the huge_pages
GUC.

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