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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Greg Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:48:41 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Greg Smith wrote:
> 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.

Is this a TODO?

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