Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax

2008-12-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > [ redirecting to pgsql-docs ] > > Valentin Bogdanov writes: > >> From: dx k9 > >> I'm trying to understand what the documentation means > >> by bytes per increment, what is the increment supposed to > >> be bytes, MB, or Kb. > > > shared_buffers is in disk block size, typicall

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax

2008-12-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have added this TODO item: Rationalize the discrepancy between settings that use values in bytes and SHOW that returns the object count * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2008-07/msg7.php ---

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax

2008-12-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > [ redirecting to pgsql-docs ] > > > > Valentin Bogdanov writes: > > >> From: dx k9 > > >> I'm trying to understand what the documentation means > > >> by bytes per increment, what is the increment supposed to > > >> be bytes, MB, or Kb. > > > > > share

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax

2008-12-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > [ redirecting to pgsql-docs ] > > > > > > Valentin Bogdanov writes: > > > >> From: dx k9 > > > >> I'm trying to understand what the documentation means > > > >> by bytes per increment, what is the increment supposed to > > >

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax

2008-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> I don't find it any clearer ... I think the missing clue is that if you >> specify shared_buffers values in MB, you must divide the value by block >> size. > Well, the heading says "object" now so I thought it would suggest we are > talking about o

Re: [DOCS] triggers on views?

2008-12-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > We had a doc comment come in noting that the second paragraph seems to be > > incorrect on > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/rules-triggers.html, > > specifically the part that says "On the other hand, a trigger that is fired > > on I

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] shared_buffers and shmmax

2008-12-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> I don't find it any clearer ... I think the missing clue is that if you > >> specify shared_buffers values in MB, you must divide the value by block > >> size. > > > Well, the heading says "object" now so I thought it would su