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commit    b8db4c2af0fc7d1fc335bcc20f7479e11452cacb
Author:   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date:     Tue Nov 06 18:40:02 2018 +0000
First released in: 12.0, 9.4.21, 9.5.16, 9.6.12, 10.7, 11.1

    GUC: adjust effective_cache_size SQL descriptions
    
    Follow on patch for commit 3e0f1a4741f564c1a2fa6e944729d6967355d8c7.
    
    Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/369ec766-b947-51bd-4dad-6fb9e026439f@2ndquadrant.com
    
    Backpatch-through: 9.4


 src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index b089b31ffd2..9c20fb84b63 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -2486,8 +2486,8 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 
 	{
 		{"effective_cache_size", PGC_USERSET, QUERY_TUNING_COST,
-			gettext_noop("Sets the planner's assumption about the size of the data cache."),
-			gettext_noop("That is, the size of the cache used for PostgreSQL data files. "
+			gettext_noop("Sets the planner's assumption about the total size of the data caches."),
+			gettext_noop("That is, the total size of the caches (kernel cache and shared buffers) used for PostgreSQL data files. "
 						 "This is measured in disk pages, which are normally 8 kB each."),
 			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS,
 		},


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