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From: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
To: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Seino Yuki <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Doc: shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages with the "SHOW" command.
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:26:06 -0500
Message-ID: <Zw8WLvyjsbz64NOD@nathan> (raw)
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 09:31:49AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I am not sure that neither mentioning nor recommending SHOW for this
> area is a good idea, the point being to encourage its use before the
> server is running as we don't want to allocate anything when tuning
> it.

Agreed.

> Point taken that the current wording can be confusing because of the
> "*must* be shut down".  How about doing a simpler s/must/should/ for a
> softer wording?

Well, the point is that you can't use "postgres -C" to view this GUC while
the server is running.  I can see how the present wording might be
misinterpreted, though.  Perhaps we should change this sentence to
something like:

	Note that the server must be shut down to view this runtime-computed
	parameter with the postgres command.

-- 
nathan

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