On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > One frequent source of confusion are the different units that the parameters > in postgresql.conf use. shared_buffers is in 8 kB, work_mem is in 1 kB; > bgwriter_delay is in milliseconds, checkpoint_warning is in seconds. > Obviously, we can't change that without inconveniencing a lot of users. > > I think it would be useful to allow units to be added to these settings, for > example > > shared_buffers = 1000kB > checkpoint_warning = 30s > > This would also allow > > shared_buffers = 512MB > > which is a bit cumbersome to calculate right now (you'd need = 65536). > > I haven't thought yet how to parse or implement this, but would people find > this useful?
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