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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: allow segment size to be set to < 1GiB
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Msg-id 3314352.1667843545@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to allow segment size to be set to < 1GiB  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> In the attached patch I renamed --with-segsize= to --with-segsize-mb= /
> -Dsegsize= to -Dsegsize_mb=, to avoid somebody building with --with-segsize=2
> or such suddenly ending up with an incompatible build.

For the purpose of exercising these code paths with the standard
regression tests, even a megabyte seems large -- we don't create
very many test tables that are that big.  How about instead
allowing the segment size to be set in pages?

            regards, tom lane

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