Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.64.0807261741330.29072@westnet.com
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In response to Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
Responses Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

> Bite the bullet and start showing the buffer settings as a pure number of bytes
> everywhere, and get rid of the confusing '8kB' unit in pg_settings?

There's already some changes needed in this area needed to execute the
full GUC cleanup/wizard plan that's being worked on.  The pg_settings view
really should show the value both as the user input it and as it's stored
internally for cases like these, which lowers the confusion here a bit
even without going so far as converting everything to bytes.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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