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From Halley Pacheco de Oliveira
Subject buffer freelist
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Msg-id 20050707102933.40007.qmail@web52710.mail.yahoo.com
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Responses Re: buffer freelist  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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PostgreSQL 8.0.3 Documentation
Chapter 16. Server Run-time Environment
16.4. Run-time Configuration

debug_shared_buffers (integer)

Number of seconds between buffer freelist reports. If set greater than zero, emit freelist
statistics to the log every so many seconds. Zero (the default) disables reporting.

What is a buffer freelist? I can't find a definition, and I can't translate if I don't understand.

Is it a list of free buffers as it seems to be? What is a free buffer?

Thanks,
Halley

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