Re: FreeBSD page size - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: FreeBSD page size
Date
Msg-id 200309040036.h840aqQ21643@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: FreeBSD page size  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
List pgsql-performance
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Vivek Khera wrote:
> > > the restore complained often about checkpoints occurring every few
> > > seconds:
> > >
> > > Sep  2 11:57:14 d02 postgres[49721]: [5-1] LOG:  checkpoints are occurring too frequently (15 seconds apart)
> > > Sep  2 11:57:14 d02 postgres[49721]: [5-2] HINT:  Consider increasing CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS.
> > >
> > > The HINT threw me off since I had to set checkpoint_segments in
> > > postgresql.conf, where as CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS implied to me a
> > > compile-time constant.
> >
> > Woo hoo, my warning worked.  Great.
> >
> > I uppercased it because config parameters are uppercased in the
> > documentation.  Do we mention config parameters in any other error
> > messages?  Should it be lowercased?
>
> k, to me upper case denotes a compiler #define, so I would have been
> confused ... I'd go with lower case and single quotes around it to denote
> its a variable to be changed ...

Done.

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