One frequent source of confusion are the different units that the parameters in postgresql.conf use. shared_buffers is in 8 kB, work_mem is in 1 kB; bgwriter_delay is in milliseconds, checkpoint_warning is in seconds. Obviously, we can't change that without inconveniencing a lot of users.
I think it would be useful to allow units to be added to these settings, for example shared_buffers = 1000kB checkpoint_warning = 30s This would also allow shared_buffers = 512MB which is a bit cumbersome to calculate right now (you'd need = 65536). I haven't thought yet how to parse or implement this, but would people find this useful? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
