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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2018-11-02 09:11:00 -0400
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2018-11-02 09:11:00 -0400
commit5463deb15f648685bcd406f020af6e434c4ed28c (patch)
tree45543e8adcd9842857712cca08ae01a2e7249572 /doc/src
parent919cffd323a0408a31cde7bc58994add5694b7fc (diff)
GUC: adjust effective_cache_size docs and SQL description
Clarify that effective_cache_size is both kernel buffers and shared buffers. Reported-by: nat@makarevitch.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153685164808.22334.15432535018443165207@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.3
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index c7c90d20e8e..f6a7bd53838 100644
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@@ -3962,7 +3962,8 @@ ANY <replaceable class="parameter">num_sync</replaceable> ( <replaceable class="
used. When setting this parameter you should consider both
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s shared buffers and the
portion of the kernel's disk cache that will be used for
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> data files. Also, take
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> data files, though some
+ data might exist in both places. Also, take
into account the expected number of concurrent queries on different
tables, since they will have to share the available
space. This parameter has no effect on the size of shared