Re: request for feedback - read-only GUC variables, pg_settings

Greg Stark wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > I hate to reply to this because I have already cast my vote, but
> > "block_size" does not report the size of a disk block. It reports the
> > size of a PostgreSQL block/page. Disk blocks are almost always 512
> > bytes in size.
>
> Perhaps then neither "block" nor "page" is best. Perhaps it should be
> "buffer_size" or something like that?

It is really the storage block size, and that is manifest in the buffer
size and disk block size used.

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