From: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:47:05 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0807261741330.29072@westnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3bd4182ebf79bc4a171f08d03d2edb2f@biglumber.com>
References: <3bd4182ebf79bc4a171f08d03d2edb2f@biglumber.com>
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Bite the bullet and start showing the buffer settings as a pure number of bytes
> everywhere, and get rid of the confusing '8kB' unit in pg_settings?
There's already some changes needed in this area needed to execute the
full GUC cleanup/wizard plan that's being worked on. The pg_settings view
really should show the value both as the user input it and as it's stored
internally for cases like these, which lowers the confusion here a bit
even without going so far as converting everything to bytes.
--
* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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