Hello, all Could you give me your opinions on whether the SHOW command should display the effective value or the specified value for huge_pages? During the review of "Supporting huge_pages on Windows", which is now shifted to CommitFest 2017-3, Magnus gave me a comment that the huge_page variable should retain the value "try" when the huge page is not available on the machine and the server falls back to huge_page=off. The Linux version does so.
I don't have a strong opinion on that, but I think a bit that it would be better to reflect the effective setting, i.e. SHOW displays huge_pages as off, not try. Otherwise, the user cannot know whether the huge page setting is effective. One parameter that behaves similarly is wal_buffers. When wal_buffers is set to -1 (default), "SHOW wal_buffers" displays the actual size, not -1. But I didn't find any other parameters like this. Regards Takayuki Tsunakawa -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
