On 3/12/21 2:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Alex <cdalx...@yahoo.com> writes: >> The following changes would make docs clear: >> work_mem (numeric with memory unit) >> statement_timeout (numeric with time unit) > > I'm not sure about "clear", but I am sure that'd be inaccurate. > We have integer GUCs and float8 GUCs, but no numeric GUCs. > I do not see a useful purpose in obscuring that distinction. > > I could see using a couple more words than I suggested before: > > work_mem (integer, units of kilobytes)
This gets a little more complicated with: shared_buffers (integer, units of BLOCKSZ) -- Vik Fearing