On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 05:22, Harald Fuchs wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Would anyone object to a patch that exports the blocksize via a > >> readonly GUC? Too many tunables are page dependant, which is > >> infuriating when copying configs from DB to DB. I wish pgsql had some > >> notion of percentages for values that end with a '%'. > > > Rather than showing the block size, how about we change the tunables to > > be physical sizes rather than block based? > > > effective_cache_size = 1.5GB > > shared_buffers = 25MB > > Amen! Being forced to set config values in some obscure units rather > than bytes is an ugly braindamage which should be easy to fix.
But it's too user-friendly to do it this way! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA When Swedes start committing terrorism, I'll become suspicious of Scandanavians. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])