Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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
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I haven't thought yet how to parse or implement this, but would people find
this useful?
+1
I'd find this useful myself, and I think it would eliminate many
mistakes by newer admins.
Joe
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