Re: Explain buffers display units.

Greg Stark wrote:<br /><blockquote cite="mid:407d949e1002151544y53f6da3dmb7fe7a5b39cce41a@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><prewrap="">We do *not* display raw block numbers anywhere else. Generally I think
 
we should have a policy of outputing human-readable standard units of
memory whenever displaying a memory quantity. Actually I thought we
already had that policy, hence things like... </pre></blockquote><br /> The first counter example I thought of is
log_checkpointswhich looks like this:<br /><br /><font size="2">LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 133795 buffers (25.5%);
0transaction log file(s) added, 0 removed, 98 recycled; write=112.281 s, sync=108.809 s, total=221.166 s</font><br
/><br/><blockquote cite="mid:407d949e1002151544y53f6da3dmb7fe7a5b39cce41a@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><pre wrap="">
Probablythe XML schema should include the units as an attribute for
 
each tag so tools don't have to hard-code knowledge about what unit
each tag is in. </pre></blockquote><br /> I don't know if it's practical at this point, but it might be helpful for the
trulymachine-targeted output formats to include specifically BLCKSZ somewhere in their header--just so there's a
universalway to interpret the output even if the user tuned that.<br /><br /><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
 
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