Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Sunday 30 May 2004 21:33, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar@frodo.hserus.net> 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?

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