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From: Decibel! <[email protected]>
To: Greg Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:49:23 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Aug 12, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> I don't think you need yet another TODO for every detail, the  
> existing TODO "Add external tool to auto-tune some postgresql.conf  
> parameters" has to squash a bunch of issues in this area.  This  
> particular issue Greg raised will already be improved significantly  
> if executing the larger project plan at http://wiki.postgresql.org/ 
> wiki/GUCS_Overhaul


Yeah, but OTOH it's not clear at all when we might see such a tool,  
while clarifying this stuff would help people immediately... I think  
a TODO would be good to make sure this doesn't fall through the cracks.
-- 
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect  [email protected]
Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828




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