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Old 04-12-2008, 07:02 AM
Joshua D. Drake
 
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Default Re: effective_cache_size vs units

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:08 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Is there any special reason why I can't use "Mb" and "Gb" and such
> > for effective_cache_size, the way I can for say shared_buffers?

>
> You can't use "Mb" or "Gb" for shared_buffers either, because those are
> not accepted units.


Magnus,

Here is a link that may help:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/s...g-setting.html

It looks like it is very pedantic about the input it can receive.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




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