Re: pgsql: Make WAL segment size configurable at initdb time.

On 2018-09-20 11:48:08 -0400, David Steele wrote:
> Hi Andres,
> 
> On 9/20/17 1:04 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >
> > Make WAL segment size configurable at initdb time.
> 
> <...>
> 
> > https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fc49e24fa69a15efacd5b8958115ed9c43c48f9a
> It appears that fc49e24f missed updating the runtime config presets
> documentation.
> 
> Patch attached.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> -David
> david@pgmasters.net

> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
> index e1073ac6d3..3bfd172441 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
> @@ -8440,10 +8440,8 @@ dynamic_library_path = 'C:\tools\postgresql;H:\my_project\lib;$libdir'
>        </term>
>        <listitem>
>         <para>
> -        Reports the number of blocks (pages) in a WAL segment file.
> -        The total size of a WAL segment file in bytes is equal to
> -        <varname>wal_segment_size</varname> multiplied by <varname>wal_block_size</varname>;
> -        by default this is 16MB.  See <xref linkend="wal-configuration"/> for
> +        Reports the size of write ahead log segments.
> +        The default value is 16MB. See <xref linkend="wal-configuration"/> for
>          more information.
>         </para>
>        </listitem>

Why is this actually more correct? You mean because we have a conversion
that does the mb conversion at display time?

Greetings,

Andres Freund