Re: request for feedback - read-only GUC variables, pg_settings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> I hate to reply to this because I have already cast my vote, but
> "block_size" does not report the size of a disk block.  It reports the
> size of a PostgreSQL block/page.  Disk blocks are almost always 512
> bytes in size.

Perhaps then neither "block" nor "page" is best. Perhaps it should be
"buffer_size" or something like that?

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greg