Hello, On 2020-Apr-20, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/runtime-config-resource.html says: > > ------snip------ > temp_buffers (integer): > Sets the maximum number of temporary buffers used by each database session > [...] The default is eight megabytes (8MB). > ------snap------ > > Are we setting the maximum number of buffers or the maximum total size of > the buffers? Yeah, it's ambiguous. If you give it without units, it's the number of buffers; otherwise it's the size. The docs were updated in version 12 to include this phrase: "If this value is specified without units, it is taken as blocks, that is BLCKSZ bytes, typically 8kB." -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
