On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 14:43 -0500, Neil Tiffin wrote: > On Sep 24, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > > > On 09/23/2011 02:33 PM, Neil Tiffin wrote: > >> I have shared_buffers in the config file set for 32 MB and pgAdmin > >> reports a value of 32 MB, but pgAdmin also says the current value is > >> 4096. Can anyone point me to any docs about why the current value > >> may be different than the config value? Temp_buffers are the same > >> way, config file 8MB, but current value in pgAdmin is 1024? > > > > Internally shared_buffers is tracked as number of 8K pages. > > > > postgres=# show shared_buffers; > > shared_buffers > > ---------------- > > 32MB > > (1 row) > > > > postgres=# select setting from pg_settings where name='shared_buffers'; > > setting > > --------- > > 4096 > > (1 row) > > > > postgres=# select 4096 * 8 / 1024 as MB; > > mb > > ---- > > 32 > > (1 row) > > > > HTH, > > Excellent, just what I was looking for. I know there had to be a simple explanation, even though it seems a little retarded that pgAdmin does not point this out. And how do you get that value from pgAdmin? the config editor gives me the value with its unit, so I guess it's not from the config editor. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
