Re: Improve logging when using Huge Pages

On 2023-Jan-24, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 05:33:35PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:

> > I'm ok with this being a GUC, it doesn't feel elegant, but I suspect there's
> > no realistic elegant answer.

> Whether it's a GUC or a function, I propose to name it hugepages_active.
> If there's no objections, I'll add to the CF.

Maybe I misread the code (actually I only read the patch), but -- does
it set active=true when huge_pages=on?  I think the code only works when
huge_pages=try.  That might be pretty confusing; I think it should say
"on" in both cases.

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