Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 09:11:13 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: nat@makarevitch.org, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: effective_cache_size
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:38:20AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 01:48:49PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > So, I think there are two action items here.  First, rename "disk" to
> > "drive" or "storage" in the docs and server variable descriptions. 
> > Second, unify the description of effective_cache_size to talk about
> > storage cache size, not just kernel storage cache, and maybe even talk
> > about the double buffering effect.
> 
> I have attached a patch for the second item, which I would like to
> backpatch.  I don't think I want to deal with all the "disk" mentions at
> this time.

Patch applied through 9.3.

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