shared_buffers setting

[kevin kempter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All;

I'm unclear per the docs what the effect is of specifying a shared  
buffers value without a kB or an MB at the end.
For example if I specify shared buffers as:

shared_buffers = 5000

would this equate to 5000 8K pages, or 5000K, 5000bytes?



I usually specify the buffers in MB but I want to be sure I'm tuning  
an existing install properly - the previous DBA has used the  
convention above.


Thanks in advance

/Kevin