At Tue, 26 May 2020 09:10:40 -0400, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote in > In postgresql.conf, it says: > > #max_slot_wal_keep_size = -1 # measured in bytes; -1 disables > > I don't know if that is describing the dimension of this parameter or the > units of it, but the default units for it are megabytes, not individual > bytes, so I think it is pretty confusing.
Agreed. It should be a leftover at the time the unit was changed (before committed) to MB from bytes. The default value makes the confusion worse.
Is the following works?
#max_slot_wal_keep_size = -1 # in MB; -1 disables
Extreme pedant question: Is it MB (10^6 bytes) or MiB (2^20 bytes)?
