Re: Postgres 11 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Postgres 11 release notes
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Msg-id CABUevEyx8O4QbnxTdNia8qLgUrqWB8ZvyOSa-Df833Kwuhj3yw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Postgres 11 release notes  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On 2018-May-16, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 4:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:

> > I'm not sure why we say "huge (large) pages".  The natural term for
> > Windows is "large-pages",
> > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
> > aa366720(v=vs.85).aspx
> > so I think we should use that terminology.  Maybe something like
> >
> > Add support for <firstterm>large pages</firstterm> on Windows (Takayuki
> > Tsunakawa, Thomas Munro)
> > This is controlled by the <link>huge_pages</link> configuration parameter.
>
> I assume the point here is that we the term huge pages is what's used
> in PostgreSQL. For example, they are still configured using the
> huge_pages GUC.

That's exactly what my proposed wording says :-)


Uh. Nevermind. Nothing to see here. For some reason I only saw the first paragraph. 


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