On Wednesday 02 June 2004 20:16, Tom Lane wrote: > Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Any updates/opinions? Should we convert assign hooks to perform actual > > assignment and custom validation instead of just custom validation? It is > > clear from README that it is for validation purposes only.. > > As it should be. Assign hooks have no business altering the > user-supplied value.
OK > I remain unalterably opposed to the notion of measuring shared_buffers > in KB, but if you think you can get such a thing in over my objections, Are you OK with MBs? I am fine with anything. > the way to do it is to decouple the GUC parameter from NBuffers. The > GUC setting is whatever it is; you can reject the value if it's too > far out of range, but you do not editorialize upon it. What you do is > compute the derived value for NBuffers and assign that in the assign > hook. That means removing NBuffers from declaration for config structure and substituting a dummy variable for it? If you think this is good and acceptable enough, I will proceed making changes that way. Shall I take this as guideline for other parameters as well? Shridhar ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
