Hello, Andrew Gierth pointed out that I left behind some outdated advice about RAID spindles in the GUC's extra description field, in commit b09ff536. Let's just drop that description. Patch attached.
From bb2fad4c540b18ad1683f7d69783f9b2634b1da2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 21:11:37 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] Remove outdated reference to RAID spindles.
Commit b09ff536 left behind some outdated advice in the "extra_desc" field of the GUC "effective_io_concurrency". Remove it. Back-patch to 13. Reported-by: Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> --- src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c index 00018abb7d..260ec7b97e 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c @@ -2951,7 +2951,7 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] = PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_ASYNCHRONOUS, gettext_noop("Number of simultaneous requests that can be handled efficiently by the disk subsystem."), - gettext_noop("For RAID arrays, this should be approximately the number of drive spindles in the array."), + NULL, GUC_EXPLAIN }, &effective_io_concurrency, -- 2.30.0