On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:53:40AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joe Conway wrote:

> > The main open question at this point is the name for the "block_size" 
> > variable. Peter favors "block_size", Bruce favors "page_size", Tom 
> > hasn't taken a position on that specific issue. Does anyone have and 
> > opinion on the variable name, or any general comments before I commit this?
> 
> I hate to reply to this because I have already cast my vote, but
> "block_size" does not report the size of a disk block.  It reports the
> size of a PostgreSQL block/page.  Disk blocks are almost always 512
> bytes in size.

pg_block_size ?

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"God is real, unless declared as int"

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