Greg Stark wrote:
We do *not* display raw block numbers anywhere else. Generally I think we should have a policy of outputing human-readable standard units of memory whenever displaying a memory quantity. Actually I thought we already had that policy, hence things like...
The first counter example I thought of is log_checkpoints which looks like this:
LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 133795 buffers (25.5%); 0 transaction log file(s) added, 0 removed, 98 recycled; write=112.281 s, sync=108.809 s, total=221.166 s
Probably the XML schema should include the units as an attribute for each tag so tools don't have to hard-code knowledge about what unit each tag is in.
I don't know if it's practical at this point, but it might be helpful for the truly machine-targeted output formats to include specifically BLCKSZ somewhere in their header--just so there's a universal way to interpret the output even if the user tuned that.
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