Re: [HACKERS] request for feedback - read-only GUC variables, pg_settings

2003-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Greg Stark wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I hate to reply to this because I have already cast my vote, but > > "block_size" does not report the size of a disk block. It reports the > > size of a PostgreSQL block/page. Disk blocks are almost always 512 > > bytes in size.

Re: [HACKERS] request for feedback - read-only GUC variables, pg_settings

2003-12-04 Thread Greg Stark
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hate to reply to this because I have already cast my vote, but > "block_size" does not report the size of a disk block. It reports the > size of a PostgreSQL block/page. Disk blocks are almost always 512 > bytes in size. Perhaps then neither "block"

Re: [HACKERS] request for feedback - read-only GUC variables, pg_settings

2003-12-04 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:53:40AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Joe Conway wrote: > > The main open question at this point is the name for the "block_size" > > variable. Peter favors "block_size", Bruce favors "page_size", Tom > > hasn't taken a position on that specific issue. Does anyone have

Re: [HACKERS] request for feedback - read-only GUC variables, pg_settings

2003-12-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote: > We (mostly Bruce, Tom, Peter, and I) have been having a discussion on > the PATCHES list regarding some new functionality related to read-only > GUC variables. The net result is pasted at the bottom of this post. Here > is a link to the discussion: > http://archives.postgresq

[HACKERS] request for feedback - read-only GUC variables, pg_settings changes

2003-12-02 Thread Joe Conway
We (mostly Bruce, Tom, Peter, and I) have been having a discussion on the PATCHES list regarding some new functionality related to read-only GUC variables. The net result is pasted at the bottom of this post. Here is a link to the discussion: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-11/