Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B651864FCFF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:10:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94883-04 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:10:46 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20CB64FCF9 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:10:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m8G1Ah6j010140; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:10:43 -0400 (EDT) To: kevin kempter cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: shared_buffers setting In-reply-to: <35B9834E-53C9-49E9-843C-3D3839999317@kevinkempterllc.com> References: <35B9834E-53C9-49E9-843C-3D3839999317@kevinkempterllc.com> Comments: In-reply-to kevin kempter message dated "Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:22:14 -0600" Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:10:42 -0400 Message-ID: <10139.1221527442@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200809/152 X-Sequence-Number: 30245 kevin kempter 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