Re: Improve logging when using Huge Pages

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 02:50:30PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 02:37:15PM -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> > Fair enough. I know I've been waffling in the GUC versus function
> > discussion, but FWIW v7 of the patch looks reasonable to me.
>
> + Assert(strcmp("unknown", GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)) != 0);
>
> Not sure that there is anything to gain with this assertion in
> CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(), because this is pretty much what
> check_GUC_init() looks after?

It seems like you misread the assertion, so I added a comment about it.
Indeed, the assertion addresses the other question you asked later.

That's what I already commented about, and the reason I found it
compelling not to use a boolean.

On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 04:57:58PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I added an assert to check that a running server won't output
> "unknown".

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 09:15:35AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> There was a second thing that bugged me here. Would it be worth
> adding some checks on huge_pages_status to make sure that it is never
> reported as unknown when the server is up and running?

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Justin