Re: FreeBSD page size

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD page size
Date: 2003-09-04 00:04:58
Message-ID: 20030903210400.U803@ganymede.hub.org
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Vivek Khera wrote:
> > the restore complained often about checkpoints occurring every few
> > seconds:
> >
> > Sep 2 11:57:14 d02 postgres[49721]: [5-1] LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (15 seconds apart)
> > Sep 2 11:57:14 d02 postgres[49721]: [5-2] HINT: Consider increasing CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS.
> >
> > The HINT threw me off since I had to set checkpoint_segments in
> > postgresql.conf, where as CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS implied to me a
> > compile-time constant.
>
> Woo hoo, my warning worked. Great.
>
> I uppercased it because config parameters are uppercased in the
> documentation. Do we mention config parameters in any other error
> messages? Should it be lowercased?

k, to me upper case denotes a compiler #define, so I would have been
confused ... I'd go with lower case and single quotes around it to denote
its a variable to be changed ...

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