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

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: request for feedback - read-only GUC variables, pg_settings
Date: 2003-12-04 16:39:50
Message-ID: 87n0a84jvt.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv
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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?

--
greg

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