On Sep 24, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > On 09/23/2011 02:33 PM, Neil Tiffin wrote: >> I have shared_buffers in the config file set for 32 MB and pgAdmin >> reports a value of 32 MB, but pgAdmin also says the current value is >> 4096. Can anyone point me to any docs about why the current value >> may be different than the config value? Temp_buffers are the same >> way, config file 8MB, but current value in pgAdmin is 1024? > > Internally shared_buffers is tracked as number of 8K pages. > > postgres=# show shared_buffers; > shared_buffers > ---------------- > 32MB > (1 row) > > postgres=# select setting from pg_settings where name='shared_buffers'; > setting > --------- > 4096 > (1 row) > > postgres=# select 4096 * 8 / 1024 as MB; > mb > ---- > 32 > (1 row) > > HTH,
Excellent, just what I was looking for. I know there had to be a simple explanation, even though it seems a little retarded that pgAdmin does not point this out. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
