From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:02:39 -0700
Message-ID: <1216922559.6858.56.camel@jd-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3bd4182ebf79bc4a171f08d03d2edb2f@biglumber.com>
References: <3bd4182ebf79bc4a171f08d03d2edb2f@biglumber.com>
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 17:54 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> >> shared_buffers is in disk block size, typically 8K
>
> > The table the OP is looking at (table 17.2 in the 8.3 docs) predates
> > the ability to specify shared_buffers in KB or MB instead of
> > number-of-buffers. I agree it's not entirely obvious that what it
> > means is "multiply your setting in KB/MB by 8400/8192". Anybody have
> > an idea how to clarify things?
>
> 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?
+1
We have helper functions like pg_size_pretty() to resolve the other
issues.
Joshua D. Drake
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