Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2022-11-06 14:04:29 +0700, John Naylor wrote: >> I think the best thing to do is change huge_pages='on' to log a WARNING and >> fallback to regular pages if the mapping fails.
> I am strongly opposed to making 'on' fall back to not using huge pages. That's
> what 'try' is for.
Agreed --- changing "on" to be exactly like "try" isn't an improvement.
If you want "try" semantics, choose "try".
regards, tom lane
