To test something unrelated, I set my shared_buffers to 7TB on my laptop
today (no, unfortunately I don't have that much RAM).
That leads to the startup error:
FATAL: -536870912 is outside the valid range for parameter
"effective_cache_size" (-1 .. 2147483647)
So clearly there is an overflow somewhere in the calculation of
effective_cache_size, most likely from the fact that it's now dynamically
calculated.
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