On 2023-Feb-08, Justin Pryzby wrote: > I don't think it makes sense to run postgres -C huge_pages_active, > however, so I see no issue that that would always returns "false".
Hmm, I would initialize it to return "unknown" rather than "off" — and make sure it turns "off" at the appropriate time. Otherwise you're just moving the confusion elsewhere. > If need be, maybe the documentation could say "indicates whether huge > pages are active for the running server". Dunno, that seems way too subtle. > Does anybody else want to vote for a function rather than a > RUNTIME_COMPUTED GUC ? I don't think I'd like to have SELECT show_block_size() et al, so I'd rather not go that way. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "¿Qué importan los años? Lo que realmente importa es comprobar que a fin de cuentas la mejor edad de la vida es estar vivo" (Mafalda)
