Re: shared_buffers setting - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From kevin kempter
Subject Re: shared_buffers setting
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Msg-id 2D872BCB-2C5F-4DF7-8668-40066717A44B@kevinkempterllc.com
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In response to Re: shared_buffers setting  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thanks !


On Sep 15, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> kevin kempter <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com> writes:
>> I'm unclear per the docs what the effect is of specifying a shared
>> buffers value without a kB or an MB at the end.
>> For example if I specify shared buffers as:
>> shared_buffers = 5000
>> would this equate to 5000 8K pages, or 5000K, 5000bytes?
>
> Pages.  When in doubt, look at the units column of pg_settings.
>
>             regards, tom lane
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