Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax

Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>
> > Bite the bullet and start showing the buffer settings as a pure number of bytes
> > everywhere, and get rid of the confusing '8kB' unit in pg_settings?
>
> There's already some changes needed in this area needed to execute the
> full GUC cleanup/wizard plan that's being worked on.  The pg_settings view
> really should show the value both as the user input it and as it's stored
> internally for cases like these, which lowers the confusion here a bit
> even without going so far as converting everything to bytes.

Is this a TODO?

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