Re: allow segment size to be set to < 1GiB - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: allow segment size to be set to < 1GiB
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Msg-id 20221109202509.nzsecnlfz5b42ooe@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: allow segment size to be set to < 1GiB  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: allow segment size to be set to < 1GiB
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Hi,

On 2022-11-09 14:44:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > A second question: Both autoconf and meson print the segment size as GB right
> > now. Obviously that'll print out a size of 0 for a segsize < 1GB.
> 
> > The easiest way to would be to just display the number of blocks, but that's
> > not particularly nice.
> 
> Well, it would be fine if you'd written --with-segsize-blocks, wouldn't
> it?  Can we make the printout format depend on which switch was used?

Not sure why I didn't think of that...

Updated patch attached.

I made one autoconf and one meson CI task use a small block size, but just to
ensure it work on both. I'd probably leave it set on one, so we keep the
coverage for cfbot?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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