Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:43:03 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: iphatiey5eu2au6@pasms.be, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: temporary file size clarification
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:26:38AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/runtime-config-logging.html
> Description:
> 
> The setting log_temp_files will enable logging of the usage of temporary
> files, including their size in the log files.  The setting is given in
> kilobytes, which is clearly documented.  However, I could not find any clear
> documentation that describes the unit of size that is used in the logfiles
> themselves, the log line is something like "profiles@profiles LOG: 
> temporary file: path "base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp31863.1", size 3137536" but
> there is no size unit in the logfile or in the settings documentation.  Can
> you add whether the log line is in bytes/kilobytes/megabytes?

Uh, I believe it is simply in bytes.

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