On Monday 31 May 2004 18:41, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > On Sunday 30 May 2004 21:33, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I was toying around with idea of converting all the memory related > > > > parameters in postgresql.conf to kilobytes for simplicity and > > > > uniformity. > > > > > > Why is that a good idea? > > > > Right now following are measured in pages > > wal_buffers > > shared_buffers > > effective_cachesize > > > > Following are in kbs > > work_mem > > maintenance_work_mem > > max_stack_depth > > > > while rest of the memory parameters are in kb. I thought being uniform > > would be good. Besides it will make it independent of page size as well. > > Sounds good to me. How are you handling cases where the value has to be > a multiple of page size --- rounding or throwing an error?
The patch rounds it down owing to assignment of possible real number to integer. but I didn't imagine of this requirement, to be honest. This seems to be better behavior than throwing an error. Shridhar ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
