From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: kevin kempter <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: shared_buffers setting
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:10:42 -0400
Message-ID: <10139.1221527442@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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kevin kempter <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com> writes:
> I'm unclear per the docs what the effect is of specifying a shared
> buffers value without a kB or an MB at the end.
> For example if I specify shared buffers as:
> shared_buffers = 5000
> would this equate to 5000 8K pages, or 5000K, 5000bytes?
Pages. When in doubt, look at the units column of pg_settings.
regards, tom lane
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