Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B9E65028E; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:49:12 -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 69261-08; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:48:48 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA3E65026D; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:48:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m7CHmfX26268; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:48:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200808121748.m7CHmfX26268@momjian.us> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax In-Reply-To: To: Greg Smith Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:48:41 -0400 (EDT) CC: Greg Sabino Mullane , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 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: 200808/2 X-Sequence-Number: 4942 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? -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +