kevin kempter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? Pages. When in doubt, look at the units column of pg_settings. regards, tom lane