On 2023-Jan-24, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 05:33:35PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I'm ok with this being a GUC, it doesn't feel elegant, but I suspect there's
> > no realistic elegant answer.
> Whether it's a GUC or a function, I propose to name it hugepages_active.
> If there's no objections, I'll add to the CF.
Maybe I misread the code (actually I only read the patch), but -- does
it set active=true when huge_pages=on? I think the code only works when
huge_pages=try. That might be pretty confusing; I think it should say
"on" in both cases.
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