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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2018-11-06 13:40:02 -0500
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2018-11-06 13:40:02 -0500
commitb8db4c2af0fc7d1fc335bcc20f7479e11452cacb (patch)
treeb9e8957a6b89ac35fe75ebe655fe1da161fc2aec /src
parent4f0bf3359faee12317808634024627a824d658f5 (diff)
GUC: adjust effective_cache_size SQL descriptions
Follow on patch for commit 3e0f1a4741f564c1a2fa6e944729d6967355d8c7. Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/369ec766-b947-51bd-4dad-6fb9e026439f@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch-through: 9.4
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index b089b31ffd2..9c20fb84b63 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -2486,8 +2486,8 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
{
{"effective_cache_size", PGC_USERSET, QUERY_TUNING_COST,
- gettext_noop("Sets the planner's assumption about the size of the data cache."),
- gettext_noop("That is, the size of the cache used for PostgreSQL data files. "
+ gettext_noop("Sets the planner's assumption about the total size of the data caches."),
+ gettext_noop("That is, the total size of the caches (kernel cache and shared buffers) used for PostgreSQL data files. "
"This is measured in disk pages, which are normally 8 kB each."),
GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS,
},