Re: Postgres 11 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Postgres 11 release notes
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Msg-id 20180516140818.33eecjb3adbijxtv@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Postgres 11 release notes  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Postgres 11 release notes  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: Postgres 11 release notes  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 2018-May-15, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 09:01:35AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > There's a small typo.
> > 
> > > Add support for with huge(large) pages on Windows (Takayuki Tsunakawa, Thomas Munro) 
> > 
> > I think a space between "huge" and "(large)" is needed.
> 
> Done, URL updated.

I'm not sure why we say "huge (large) pages".  The natural term for
Windows is "large-pages",
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366720(v=vs.85).aspx
so I think we should use that terminology.  Maybe something like

Add support for <firstterm>large pages</firstterm> on Windows (Takayuki Tsunakawa, Thomas Munro)
This is controlled by the <link>huge_pages</link> configuration parameter.

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